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Stewart Brand

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Commerce

Grant McCracken: The Rise of Artisanal Everything and 'Cruelty-Free Capitalism'

In Return of the Artisan, anthropologist Grant McCracken explains how we've shifted from an industrial to a handmade economy.

Nick Gillespie | 8.31.2022 5:05 PM

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Counterculture

'The Intellectual Johnny Appleseed of the Counterculture'

A conversation with Whole Earth Catalog founder, Merry Prankster, and woolly mammoth de-extinctionist Stewart Brand.

Nick Gillespie | 5.9.2021 6:00 AM

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Stewart Brand

We Are As Gods: Stewart Brand & The Fight to Bring Back Woolly Mammoths

From "stay hungry, stay foolish" to "try everything, take nothing off the table."

Nick Gillespie | 3.31.2021 3:15 PM

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Extinction

Stewart Brand: We Are (Still) As Gods

The former Merry Prankster and Whole Earth Catalog founder talks about psychedelics, computers, bringing back woolly mammoths, and his new documentary.

Nick Gillespie | 3.17.2021 4:51 PM

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Technology

The Other Revolution of 1968

Friday A/V Club: The "mother of all demos" turns 50.

Jesse Walker | 12.14.2018 11:01 AM

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1968

'We Are as Gods and Might as Well Get Good at It'

Commemorating the Whole Earth Catalog 50 years later.

Nick Gillespie | 11.4.2018 6:00 AM

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Media

Before People Fretted About Fake Videos, People Fretted About Fake Photographs

Do deepfakes really represent "the collapse of reality"?

Jesse Walker | 4.11.2018 1:28 PM

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Friday A/V Club

Free to Adapt

Friday A/V Club: What happens to buildings after they're built?

Jesse Walker | 5.5.2017 1:40 PM

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Culture

Architecture, Fate, and Utopia

The right way for an experiment to fail

Jesse Walker | 4.7.2016 1:55 PM

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Policy

Friday A/V Club: Vintage Metric Propaganda to Warm Lincoln Chafee's Heart

Plus an anti-metrification argument from the Whole Earth Catalog's Stewart Brand

Jesse Walker | 6.5.2015 12:28 PM

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Politics

Suspicious Minds

The '70s saw a strange interplay of skepticism and nostalgia.

Jesse Walker | 11.27.2014 3:00 PM

Politics

Suspicious Minds in the 1970s

Rick Perlstein's new book shows the strange '70s interplay of skepticism and nostalgia.

Jesse Walker | 8.24.2014 10:00 AM

Culture

Why Be a Maker When You Can Be a Re-Maker? (Of Society According to Your Ideological Predilections)

Brian Doherty | 1.23.2014 7:01 PM

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Culture

Premature Prophets

The lost tomorrows of space colonies and nanotech

Brian Doherty | 5.30.2013 1:30 PM

Culture

The Conquest of the Future

The lost tomorrows of Gerald O'Neill and Eric Drexler's visions of infinite space and abundance.

Brian Doherty | 3.19.2013 7:00 AM

Culture

Resilient Japan

Three lessons from the week's disasters

Jesse Walker | 3.16.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

The Visionary

Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand on the future, the environment, libertarianism, and the Merry Pranksters

Brian Doherty | 9.10.2010 12:00 PM

Politics

In Defense of Slums

Ben Sanders | 3.1.2010 2:13 PM

Policy

How Green Are Your Nukes?

Environmentalists spar over nuclear power

Ronald Bailey | 1.22.2010 4:30 PM

Stewart Brand

Nuke Power, Biotech, and Megacities—Current Environmental Heresies Will Transform Into Orthodoxies In Ten Years

Ronald Bailey | 3.1.2007 4:18 PM

Economics

Whole Earth Optimists

Jesse Walker | 1.4.2007 1:07 PM

Culture

Cold War Meets Counterculture

How hippie hero Stewart Brand created our wired world

Brian Doherty | 12.5.2006 10:52 AM

Environmentalism

Stewart Brand Speaks 'Environmental Heresies' At Long Last

Ronald Bailey | 4.13.2005 10:19 AM

Policy

Designing Rules

Making room for different tastes

Virginia Postrel | 10.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Trashing Trailer Parks

No mobile homes?

Jesse Walker | 8.1.2002 12:00 AM

Book Reviews

Tool for Living

Jack Shafer | 6.1.1981 12:00 PM

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