Stewart Brand

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

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kind of apparatus is going to have an online support group, a fan group, where they're

rebuilding some old particular old car.

And 50 people from all over the world are deeply engaged in rebuilding that kind of old car.

And they know where to either get or create anew the parts that you need.

Or maybe some of them have decided they're going to get a printer and print the parts, and they'll sell them to the other people in the group.

And they'll encourage each other, and they'll be amazed by some people that have got an incredible example of the thing that they all care about.

And so you learn...

of what skill looks like and what it takes to have that kind of skill.

And so it goes.

I think this aspect of the kind of golden era we expected with the coming of the internet has actually come to pass.

And some of the commercial apparatus does go toward uncidification.

We also learn how to work around that.

But by and large,

Anybody, anywhere has access to almost anything they need to know.

Isn't that astonishing?

Well, yeah, so you're an example of the kind of enabling that is coming from all this.

Yeah, and so, hmm.

Danny Hillis is a computer designer and computer scientist who I got to know when I was at the Media Lab at MIT back in the 80s.

And he was noticing as we got into the 1990s that people talk about the future as the year 2000.

And he said, they've been talking about the future as the year 2000 my whole life.

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