Stewart Brand

American writer and editor who created the Whole Earth Catalog — the information bible of the 1960s counterculture — and has been a consistently original voice on technology, ecology, and long-term thinking.

Whole Earth Catalog: access to tools and information for self-sufficiency — Steve Jobs called it 'the internet before the internet.' Long Now Foundation: promoting long-term thinking through a 10,000-year clock. Revives Whole Earth philosophy: nuclear energy, de-extinction, urbanization as progressive forces. How Buildings Learn: a framework for adaptive architecture.