Stewart Brand
American Writer | Pioneer of Digital Culture and Ecological Thinking
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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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