Stewart Brand
American Writer | Pioneer of Digital Culture and Ecological Thinking
About
Stewart Brand has been a transformative intellectual force bridging technology, environmental science, and social innovation for over five decades. As the co-founder and original editor of the Whole Earth Catalog—a publication that profoundly influenced the counterculture and early digital communities—he helped reshape how generations think about technology and ecology. Brand's groundbreaking publications and far-reaching ideas continue to inspire audiences to re-examine their relationship with the natural world and embrace technology's potential to address global challenges.
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Mammoths resurrected, geoengineering and other thoughts from a futurist
Stewart Brand is a futurist, counterculturist and visionary with a very wide-ranging mind. In conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Brand discusses ... just about everything: human nature, bringing back the wooly mammoth, geoengineering, rewilding and science as organized skepticism -- plus the story of an acid trip on a San Francisco rooftop in the '60s that sparked a perspective-shifting idea. "The story we're told is that we're the next meteor," Brand says, but "things are capable of getting better."
The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?
Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?
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