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What's
unrecognized about Stewart is that he's a designer. He designed The
Well to be something that wouldn't require his running it. He designed
the Whole Earth Review and the Whole Earth Catalog to be self-sustaining
communities. We need more mavericks like him. The world has become too
much of an intellectual monoculture of people who belong to corporations
and who don't question the established way of doing things. He
has had the courage and the open-mindedness to change over the course
of his life. He is now one of the wisest, smartest, most sensible people
I know. He has also become very kind.
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Stewart
Brand
STEWART BRAND is cofounder and co-chairman of The Long Now Foundation. He is the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, cofounder of The Well, and cofounder of Global Business Network, He is on the board of the Santa Fe Institute, and maintains connections with Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wired magazine and MIT's Media Lab, while occasionally consulting for Ecotrust. A substantial item on the Global Business Network site is a list of all the books he has recommended for the GBN "Book Club" since 1988 and several hundred of his reviews. He is the original editor of The Whole Earth Catalog, (Winner of the National Book Award); author of The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT, How Buildings Learn, and The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility (MasterMinds Series); and Two Cybernetic Frontiers on Gregory Bateson and cutting-edge computer science. It had the first use of the term "personal computer" in print and was the first book to report on computer hackers. He was featured on the cover of The Los Angeles Times Magazine: "Always two steps ahead of others.....(he) is the least recognized, most influential thinker in America." Further reading on Edge: "The
Clock of the Long Now" A Talk by Stewart Brand Beyond
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