Stewart Brand
speaker
734 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 24 Apr
Stewart Brand’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was pretty big.
Actually, bookstores complained about it because it's about as big as a laptop now, basically folio size.
And thicker than a laptop now.
I've seen them.
It's big.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
By the time we did the
so-called Next Whole Earth Catalog.
It was several pounds of everything.
But, I mean, you know, Steve Jobs in his famous commencement speech said it was like Google decades before Google came along.
The Whole Earth Catalog had all those books.
You know, how to be a beekeeper, how to grow sheep, how to make candles.
We were actually candle tipping.
So...
That was what the whole earth catalog was.
And it turned out what it really did is what YouTube does now.
It conferred agency.
Yeah, I was in San Francisco and kind of bored.
And one of the things you did with boredom at that time was drop some acid and see what happens.
It was kind of a minor dose.
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