Stewart Brand

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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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And it's been getting shorter by one year per year.

What can I do to pop people through these membranes of when we think the future is?

And Danny's the guy who invents things and builds things.

He builds a computer out of fishing line and tic-tac-toe.

Anyway, out of wood pieces at the computer museum.

This was a machine that could beat you with tic-tac-toe.

that took that show with string and wood.

So he wanted to build a physical thing of the scale of Stonehenge that would be a mechanical device that would keep accurate time for 10,000 years.

So it's not such a thing that lasts 10,000 years.

It doesn't stop ticking for 10,000 years.

And all that time is telling accurate time.

So it's been built.

It's in a mountain in Texas and will be visible by the public sometime in the next probably 10 years.

So they had to invent, he and the team that he built around it, had to invent various things that couldn't use any kind of technology

lubrication, because that becomes a source of a problem over time.

So all of the places where there was friction, they wound up using ceramic surfaces.

And it's a skeleton clock, so you can see if anything goes wrong, you see exactly where it's gone wrong.

And there's a mountain of spare parts off in a separate part of the cave.

This is a 300 foot high thing inside a mountain.

And it resets itself to a perfectly accurate time at noon, solar noon.

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