#stewartbrand — Public Fediverse posts
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🎩🤪 "Stewart Brand, once a hippie with a biology degree, now explains progress with a list of books you've never heard of—and probably never needed to. Apparently, the secret to progress is to maintain *everything*—yes, even that junk drawer full of expired soy sauce packets! 📚🚀"
https://www.newyorker.com/books/book-currents/stewart-brand-on-how-progress-happens #StewartBrand #ProgressBooks #JunkDrawer #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated -
Stewart Brand on How Progress Happens
https://www.newyorker.com/books/book-currents/stewart-brand-on-how-progress-happens
#HackerNews #StewartBrand #ProgressInnovation #FutureThinking #TechnologyInsights
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"#StewartBrand is not one to get mired in nostalgia. Even though the 86-year-old’s claim to fame is founding the influential counterculture bible #WholeEarthCatalog — canon for first-generation hackers and homesteading hippies — he’s not stuck in the past. And that goes for the #floatinghome in Sausalito he’s inhabited happily for 40 years. "
https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/08/stewart-brand-whole-earth-catalog-tugboat/
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Future
The present moment was once the unimaginable future.
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A Short History Of The #WholeEarthCatalog
Dan
July 5, 2020"Who remembers the Whole Earth Catalog? Anyone?
"For some, the Whole Earth Catalog was the bible for all things green and #ecofriendly, #offgrid, #BackToNature, and #enviromentally conscious and #sustainable.
"If you think environmentalism is a new phenomenon you’d be wrong.
"The seeds of the movement were planted with the writings of #JohnMuir in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But perhaps, even more so by the publication in 1854 of #HenryDavidThoreau’s influential masterpiece #Walden.
"The modern environmental movement can arguably be traced back to the publication of #RachelCarson’s classic #SilentSpring in 1962.
"One of the major rallying points for the eco-movement was concern for the #pollution of the Great Lakes.
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"As John Markoff, a technology writer for the New York Times, told the Guardian, the Whole Earth Catalog was 'the internet before the internet. It was the book of the future. It was a web in newsprint.'"
Read more:
https://wholepeople.com/whole-earth-catalog/#WholeEarthCatalog #Counterculture #HippieGeek #StewartBrand #Permaculture #PreInternetResourceGuide
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A Short History Of The #WholeEarthCatalog
Dan
July 5, 2020"Who remembers the Whole Earth Catalog? Anyone?
"For some, the Whole Earth Catalog was the bible for all things green and #ecofriendly, #offgrid, #BackToNature, and #enviromentally conscious and #sustainable.
"If you think environmentalism is a new phenomenon you’d be wrong.
"The seeds of the movement were planted with the writings of #JohnMuir in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But perhaps, even more so by the publication in 1854 of #HenryDavidThoreau’s influential masterpiece #Walden.
"The modern environmental movement can arguably be traced back to the publication of #RachelCarson’s classic #SilentSpring in 1962.
"One of the major rallying points for the eco-movement was concern for the #pollution of the Great Lakes.
[...]
"As John Markoff, a technology writer for the New York Times, told the Guardian, the Whole Earth Catalog was 'the internet before the internet. It was the book of the future. It was a web in newsprint.'"
Read more:
https://wholepeople.com/whole-earth-catalog/#WholeEarthCatalog #Counterculture #HippieGeek #StewartBrand #Permaculture #PreInternetResourceGuide
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A Short History Of The #WholeEarthCatalog
Dan
July 5, 2020"Who remembers the Whole Earth Catalog? Anyone?
"For some, the Whole Earth Catalog was the bible for all things green and #ecofriendly, #offgrid, #BackToNature, and #enviromentally conscious and #sustainable.
"If you think environmentalism is a new phenomenon you’d be wrong.
"The seeds of the movement were planted with the writings of #JohnMuir in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But perhaps, even more so by the publication in 1854 of #HenryDavidThoreau’s influential masterpiece #Walden.
"The modern environmental movement can arguably be traced back to the publication of #RachelCarson’s classic #SilentSpring in 1962.
"One of the major rallying points for the eco-movement was concern for the #pollution of the Great Lakes.
[...]
"As John Markoff, a technology writer for the New York Times, told the Guardian, the Whole Earth Catalog was 'the internet before the internet. It was the book of the future. It was a web in newsprint.'"
Read more:
https://wholepeople.com/whole-earth-catalog/#WholeEarthCatalog #Counterculture #HippieGeek #StewartBrand #Permaculture #PreInternetResourceGuide
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A Short History Of The #WholeEarthCatalog
Dan
July 5, 2020"Who remembers the Whole Earth Catalog? Anyone?
"For some, the Whole Earth Catalog was the bible for all things green and #ecofriendly, #offgrid, #BackToNature, and #enviromentally conscious and #sustainable.
"If you think environmentalism is a new phenomenon you’d be wrong.
"The seeds of the movement were planted with the writings of #JohnMuir in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But perhaps, even more so by the publication in 1854 of #HenryDavidThoreau’s influential masterpiece #Walden.
"The modern environmental movement can arguably be traced back to the publication of #RachelCarson’s classic #SilentSpring in 1962.
"One of the major rallying points for the eco-movement was concern for the #pollution of the Great Lakes.
[...]
"As John Markoff, a technology writer for the New York Times, told the Guardian, the Whole Earth Catalog was 'the internet before the internet. It was the book of the future. It was a web in newsprint.'"
Read more:
https://wholepeople.com/whole-earth-catalog/#WholeEarthCatalog #Counterculture #HippieGeek #StewartBrand #Permaculture #PreInternetResourceGuide
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A Short History Of The #WholeEarthCatalog
Dan
July 5, 2020"Who remembers the Whole Earth Catalog? Anyone?
"For some, the Whole Earth Catalog was the bible for all things green and #ecofriendly, #offgrid, #BackToNature, and #enviromentally conscious and #sustainable.
"If you think environmentalism is a new phenomenon you’d be wrong.
"The seeds of the movement were planted with the writings of #JohnMuir in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But perhaps, even more so by the publication in 1854 of #HenryDavidThoreau’s influential masterpiece #Walden.
"The modern environmental movement can arguably be traced back to the publication of #RachelCarson’s classic #SilentSpring in 1962.
"One of the major rallying points for the eco-movement was concern for the #pollution of the Great Lakes.
[...]
"As John Markoff, a technology writer for the New York Times, told the Guardian, the Whole Earth Catalog was 'the internet before the internet. It was the book of the future. It was a web in newsprint.'"
Read more:
https://wholepeople.com/whole-earth-catalog/#WholeEarthCatalog #Counterculture #HippieGeek #StewartBrand #Permaculture #PreInternetResourceGuide
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Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Told by one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of iconic serial visionary Stewart Brand, from the Merry Pranksters and the generation-defining Whole Earth Catalog to the marriage of environmental consciousness and hacker capitalism and the rise of a new planetary culture.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
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We are as Gods was een succes!
We hadden een feestje gisteren! We stayed hungry and foolish 🙂
Foto: Guido ZwennesSamen met 80 vrienden heb ik genoten van We are as Gods op het witte doek! 90 Minuten waren we ondergedompeld in de wereld van Stewart Brand, van de Acid Test tot Revive & Restore.
Ik vond het heerlijk om al die maanden voorbereiding nu werkelijkheid te zien worden in de mooie zaal van het Louis Hartlooper Complex in Utrecht.
De zaal zal al snel vol en ik was zelfs even bezorgd of ik toch niet teveel kaartjes had verkocht. Na een korte kickoff vertelden vrienden Martijn Aslander en Lykle de Vries kort over de PKM Summit, volgend jaar maart in Utrecht.
Vervolgens heb ik goede vriend Ewout Wolf aan de tand gevoeld over zijn bewondering voor Stewart Brand en wat hij uit de film haalde. Ik ben hem enorm dankbaar voor het cadeau wat ik ontving van hem, het boek How Buildings Learn, geschreven door Brand. We babbelden zo’n 5 minuten waarna het tijd werd voor de film. Met dank aan Bianca van Studio Polkadot voor het filmen!
Om het hele verhaal zo op het grote doek te zien, vooral met de muziek van Brian Eno, dat was fantastisch. Ik ben blij dat ik heb vastgehouden om de film echt in een theater te vertonen. Daar komt alles echt goed tot zijn recht.
De groep aanwezigen, het was een heerlijke groep. Een dwarsdoorsnede van de digitale voorhoede van weleer, sommigen nu nog altijd heel actief, anderen minder. Collega’s van Kaliber, geïnteresseerden in het verhaal van Brand, vrienden, bekenden. Ik vond het een feest om dit te mogen organiseren en mogelijk te maken voor iedereen.
Naderhand waren er behoorlijk wat gesprekken over de uitspraken en acties van Brand. Van twijfel tot bewondering, van afkeer tot overtuiging. Ik ben blij dat dit gebeurt, dat betekent dat het een snaar raakt. En hopelijk bijdraagt aan positieve veranderingen.
Ik kreeg vandaag in de mail een mooie overpeinzing van een van de aanwezigen: “Als we allemaal aan één van de vergelijkbare grote projecten mee zouden werken, voor een fractie van onze tijd.
Zou de wereld er waarschijnlijk beter uitzien…“Wil je meer weten over Stewart Brand en zijn werk? Een paar links ter inspiratie
- Whole Earth Info: De volledige catalogus van The Whole Earth Catalog en aanverwante publicaties.
- Long Now Foundation: De website over onder andere de fascinerende 10.000 Year Clock (idee voor een volgend uitstapje?)
- Revive & Restore: De stichting die zich met de-extinctie bezig houdt.
- Pleistocene Park: De Siberische steppe waar de mammoet terug komt.
- Stewart’s site: Zijn eigen oldskool website, heerlijk!
- Tim Ferris interview: 2,5 uur durende podcast met Tim en Stewart. Een absolute aanrader.
- Whole Earth: De geautoriseerde biografie geschreven door John Markoff.
- From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Hoe de hippies het internet uitvonden. Een heerlijke geschiedschrijving met een grote rol voor Brand.
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Cool: The Whole Earth Index
“Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by #StewartBrand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002. They are made available here for scholarship, education, and research purposes.”
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Whole Earth Index
Here lies a nearly-complete archive of #WholeEarth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the #WholeEarthCatalog, published by #StewartBrand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002. They are made available here for scholarship, education, and research purposes.