Stewart Brand portrayed as tech futurist and publisher in 'We Are as Gods'
Jessica Zack April 15, 2021 Stewart Brand, writer and founder of “Whole Earth Catalog,” adjusts his hat inside the Mirene, a converted 1912 tugboat he and his wife Ryan Phelan call home in Sausalito. Photo: Stephen Lam, The Chronicle For a devoted futurist like Stewart Brand, who is famous for his projections about technology and the environment, looking at his own past doesn’t necessarily come naturally. Given his fame as creator of the iconic 1960s DIY handbook “Whole Earth Catalog” (described by Steve Jobs as “Google in paperback form”), and later as an influenti...
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