Stewart Brand

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734 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 24 Apr

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The Ezra Klein Show · Stewart Brand, Silicon Valley’s Favorite Prophet, on Life’s Most Important Principle · 24 Apr 2026 podcast

Other stuff comes along that replaces that whole domain, but it has problems.

That's the nature of life.

Well, have you had Cory Doctorow on your show?

Excellent.

So, he's quite right.

There's a lot of what he calls incestification that has happened to

various entities where basically sponsored content comes more and more in front of the content that you're asking for.

And it's on Amazon, it's on Google, and so on, when you do a keyword search.

But now with Google,

I use their Gemini 3.

And it's not so much a search for a word string anymore.

It's a search for, tell me about this subject, please.

And

It is great.

For example, in part two of the book, there's a whole section on the later history of John Deere, where they went from one of America's oldest companies that was absolutely revered by its customers to the poster child for right to repair because its customers were so furious at it for forcing them to

delay getting fixes to their machines, and the whole business of a farmer being able to fix everything turns upside down, and they had to go through the corporation and the dealerships, and they just hated that.

So I asked Gemini 3 to...

how can I find out what the argument was within John Deere, within the company?

And he said, well, you'll find it with their stockholders, and take a look at Reddit, where you will find people who either used to work there or still work there telling the secrets of what's going on behind the scenes.

So thanks for AI.

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