8 Best Stewart Brand Books
Stewart Brand
All the best books authored by Stewart Brand.
Stewart Brand is a prominent scientist, writer, journalist and futurist, and author of "The Whole Earth Catalog" the journal that revolutionized our view on Earth.
"The Whole Earth Catalog" is not just an educational guide. In the 1970s, the collection became, in Jobs' words, "the bible of his generation."
The first issue of The Whole Earth Catalog came out in 1968. It was created by Stewart Brand, an ecologist, futurist, entrepreneur, and writer.
Brand's ideas seemed contradictory at the time: technological development, urbanization, nuclear power, genetic engineering, ecology, and environmental protection. However, he tried to make people view all the problems as a whole.
"Stay hungry. Stay foolish" - these words from Steve Jobs' Stanford speech have turned into a motto for many dreamers who want to change the real world with their ideas.
The Apple founder was inspired by the phrase at age 19 when he saw it in the latest issue of The Whole Earth Catalog, a collection of articles about the environment and technology.
We've selected 8 best books written by Stewart Brand. Enjoy!
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How Buildings Learn
Buildings have often been studies whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. How Buildings Learn is a masterful new synthesis that proposes that buildings adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and that architects can mature from being artists of space to becoming artists of time.From the connected farmhouses of New England to I.M. Pei's Media Lab, from "satisficing" to "form follows funding," from the evolution of bungalows to the invention of Santa Fe Style, from Low Road military surplus buildings to a High Road English classic like Chatsworth—this is a far-ranging survey of unexplored essential territory.More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time—if they're allowed to. How Buildings Learn shows how to work with time rather than against it.
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Whole Earth Discipline
This title shatters a number of environmental myths, and presents some radical, counterintuitive observations - cities are actually greener than the countryside, nuclear power is the future of energy, and genetic engineering is the key to crop and land management. With a combination of scientific rigor and blazing advocacy, Brand reveals to us exactly where the sources of our dilemmas lie and offers a bold and creative set of policies and solutions for producing a more sustainable society.
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The Clock Of The Long Now
Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. Here are the central questions it inspires: How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare? Discipline in thought allows freedom. One needs the space and reliability to predict continuity to have the confidence not to be afraid of revolutions Taking the time to think of the future is more essential now than ever, as culture accelerates beyond its ability to be measured Probable things are vastly outnumbered by countless near-impossible eventualities. Reality is statistically forced to be extraordinary; fiction is not allowed this freedom This is a potent book that combines the chronicling of fantastic technology with equally visionary philosophical inquiry.
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The Media Lab
Brand goes inside the world of MIT's Media Lab, famed for leading the reinvention of communition technology and applying computer science to daily life in new ways. The lab has led innovations in such fields as digital and computer programming, videocassette technology, e-mail, and holograms.
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Whole Earth Software Catalog for 1986
Assesses the best products in every area of computer science and offers practical, anecdotal descriptions of how programs actually work and what they can and cannot do
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