Stewart Brand
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 24 Apr
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A lot of people working on that.
My goodness.
You and I will probably die of old age, but I certainly will.
But that may become optional.
I mean, there's a lot of people who want it to be optional.
either through downloading our mental capabilities and experience into something not so edible, not flesh.
And we've had those flaky people forever offering that kind of stuff, some of them in the guise of religion.
But we're also having some non-flaky people.
That's what's different now.
Part of the argument that this book is putting forward is humanity has gotten to the point of terraforming Earth.
We have planetary scale impacts, and that's been going on actually for quite a while, but we now have, thanks to science, full awareness of it, full awareness of what the impacts largely are, and with climate change, a major
And for us, quite dangerous potential effect.
So maintaining the planetary biosphere system
And by the way, civilization, which is now global.
It used to be various civilizations came and went, and there was always some other civilization.
You know, when Rome went down, actually, it was just the Western Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire went on for another thousand years.
And then China was always up to something for a long time.
And so...
civilizations come and go, but there's never been a time when we haven't had civilization actually going forward in the last 8,000 years at least, 10 maybe.
So now that we have a global civilization,
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