Stewart Brand was born on December 14,1938 and is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog.
19 Facts About Stewart Brand
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Stewart Brand founded a number of organizations, including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation.
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Stewart Brand is the author of several books, most recently Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.
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Stewart Brand studied biology at Stanford University, graduating in 1960.
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Stewart Brand co-produced the Trips Festival, an early effort involving rock music and light shows, in San Francisco with Kesey and Ramon Sender Barayon.
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In 1966, while on an LSD trip on the roof of his house in North Beach, San Francisco, Stewart Brand became convinced that seeing an image of the whole Earth would change how we think about the planet and ourselves.
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Stewart Brand then campaigned to have NASA release the then-rumored satellite image of the entire Earth as seen from space.
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Stewart Brand thought the image of our planet would be a powerful symbol.
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In late 1968, Stewart Brand assisted electrical engineer Douglas Engelbart with The Mother of All Demos, a famous presentation of many revolutionary computer technologies to the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco.
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Stewart Brand surmised that given the necessary consciousness, information, and tools, human beings could reshape the world they had made for themselves into something environmentally and socially sustainable.
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Stewart Brand invited "reviews" of the best of these items from experts in specific fields.
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Stewart Brand founded the Whole Earth Software Review, a supplement to the Whole Earth Software Catalog, in 1984.
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From 1977 to 1979, Stewart Brand served as "special advisor" to the administration of California Governor Jerry Brown.
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Almost certainly the ideas behind the WELL were greatly inspired by Douglas Engelbart's work at SRI International; Stewart Brand was acknowledged by Engelbart in "The Mother of All Demos" in 1968 when the computer mouse and video conferencing were introduced.
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In 2000, Stewart Brand helped to launch the All Species Foundation, which aimed to catalog all species of life on Earth until its closure in 2007.
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Stewart Brand wrote an article called "Environmental Heresies" in the May 2005 issue of the MIT Technology Review, in which he describes what he considers necessary changes to environmentalism.
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Stewart Brand suggested among other things that environmentalists embrace nuclear power and genetically modified organisms as technologies with more promise than risk.
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Stewart Brand later developed these ideas into a book and published the Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto in 2009.
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Stewart Brand is the initiator or was involved with the development of the following:.