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 was really, really reliable.
It would always run perfectly.
But you couldn't do maintenance yourself because everything was so perfectly tuned and assembled that you would have to take it back to Rolls-Royce to do any upkeep on it.
But if you got a Model T, it was basically just a platform for adding things that you wanted and doing the repair yourself.
Well, I'm just working up on writing about the right to repair issues going on now.
There's a question of ownership.
Ownership, I think, is not just a question of having paid for and having legal possession of something.
It's actually possessing the knowledge of ownership.
what it's really about, how it functions, how to look for problems, how to diagnose problems when they come up, how to fix it.
And doing maintenance on something is basically how you really take ownership of it into your, not just physical life, but your mental and social life.
This will be another thing that AI, I think, is going to raise another level of discourse on.
Because one of the things software engineers are always trying to do, they hate doing endless simple maintenance, taking care of dependencies and stuff like that.
They call it toil.
Good word.
And they try to automate it.
so that the system can be capable of seeing when a problem is coming and immediately get itself to go around it.
And I'm sure that AI is going to bring many more levels of that.
That's the upside.
The downside is you spend more and more of your life arguing with robots.
Because, you know, we have a theory of mind.
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