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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The brain moves really quickly in these computers because they don't have to use chemicals the way our brain does.
They go a lot faster.
We can engineer at these levels more than we can understand.
Part of being a human society now is having a range of specialists that understand these things at depth, that can speak up and say, well, here's what we're pretty sure is going on.
I try to take a position of never shaking my finger and saying, you should brush your teeth, you should change your oil, you should be a nanny to your behavior, to your child, wake up and be a grown-up and take care of things.
Most things work pretty damn well most of the time.
When they don't, it comes as a surprise.
Suddenly there's a problem, and oh dear, oh dear, people who do maintenance for a living obviously do not have that frame of mind.
I mean, online access to information and parts is just astounding now.
And that's, I think, the great solution for people that will have a problem.
It was something they've owned for three or four years, and it came with a manual, but they've misplaced that for sure.
Well, it turns out they go online, and here comes some recommendations for some videos for exactly your problem and exactly your make and model and year of the device that you're having trouble with.
Actually, there's four different versions of the issue you have and four different solutions to doing it.
One notably better than the other.
You follow that and then the thing is fixed.
You're all powerful.
You've totally taken agency and that particular device is now more legible to you.
YouTube has replaced manuals.
It's replaced the whole earth catalog in terms of conferring agency on anybody to learn anything or fix anything.
So it's mostly a happy story, but you've got to go online to get the aggregate wisdom of humanity on the case.
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