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Bibliography
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(2009)
Whole Earth Discipline
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(1999)
The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer
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(1987)
The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M. I. T.
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(1986)
Essential Whole Earth Catalog
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(1978)
Soft-tech (A Coevolution book)
Personal edit
- Legal name: Stewart Brand
- Birthdate: December 14, 1938 (age 73)
- Birthplace: Rockford, IL, USA
- Nationality: American
- Gender: Male
- Official Website: http://gbn.com
- Genres: Global futures, geo-strategic issues, scenario planning,
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Stewart is a cofounder of two units of the Monitor Group:
(1) Global Business Network (scenario planning and future thinking); and of,
(2) Monitor 360 (complex geo-strategic issues).
Previously, he is best known for founding, editing, and publishing the Whole Earth Catalog (1968-1985; National Book Award, 1972), he also co-founded the Hackers Conference and The WELL.
The WELL
During 1985, Brand and Larry Brilliant founded The WELL ("Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link"), a prototypic, broad-ranging online community for intelligent, informed participants the world over.The WELL won the 1990 Best Online Publication Award from the Computer Press Association.
Global Business Network
In 1986, Brand was a visiting scientist at the Media Laboratory at MIT. Soon after, he became a private-conference organizer for such corporations as Royal Dutch/Shell, Volvo, and AT&T. During 1988, he became a co-founder of the Global Business Network, which explores global futures and business strategies informed by the sorts of values and information which Brand has always found vital. Monitor GBN has become involved with in the evolution and application of scenario thinking, planning, and complementary strategic tools. In other connections, Brand has been part of the board of the Santa Fe Institute (founded during 1984), an organization devoted to "fostering a multidisciplinary scientific research community pursuing frontier science." He has continued also to promote the preservation of tracts of wilderness.
He has a long-standing involvement in computers, education, and the media arts. He is co-founder of The Long Now Foundation, and runs a speaker series in San Francisco called Seminars About Long-term Thinking.
Stewart is author of Whole Earth Discipline (2009), The Clock of the Long Now (1999), How Buildings Learn (1994), and The MIT Media Lab (1987). He founded, edited, and published CoEvolution Quarterly (later Whole Earth), and was founder of The WELL, a computer teleconference system based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Stewart received his degree in biology from Stanford University in 1960 and served as an Army officer.
(1) Global Business Network (scenario planning and future thinking); and of,
(2) Monitor 360 (complex geo-strategic issues).
Previously, he is best known for founding, editing, and publishing the Whole Earth Catalog (1968-1985; National Book Award, 1972), he also co-founded the Hackers Conference and The WELL.
The WELL
During 1985, Brand and Larry Brilliant founded The WELL ("Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link"), a prototypic, broad-ranging online community for intelligent, informed participants the world over.The WELL won the 1990 Best Online Publication Award from the Computer Press Association.
Global Business Network
In 1986, Brand was a visiting scientist at the Media Laboratory at MIT. Soon after, he became a private-conference organizer for such corporations as Royal Dutch/Shell, Volvo, and AT&T. During 1988, he became a co-founder of the Global Business Network, which explores global futures and business strategies informed by the sorts of values and information which Brand has always found vital. Monitor GBN has become involved with in the evolution and application of scenario thinking, planning, and complementary strategic tools. In other connections, Brand has been part of the board of the Santa Fe Institute (founded during 1984), an organization devoted to "fostering a multidisciplinary scientific research community pursuing frontier science." He has continued also to promote the preservation of tracts of wilderness.
He has a long-standing involvement in computers, education, and the media arts. He is co-founder of The Long Now Foundation, and runs a speaker series in San Francisco called Seminars About Long-term Thinking.
Stewart is author of Whole Earth Discipline (2009), The Clock of the Long Now (1999), How Buildings Learn (1994), and The MIT Media Lab (1987). He founded, edited, and published CoEvolution Quarterly (later Whole Earth), and was founder of The WELL, a computer teleconference system based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Stewart received his degree in biology from Stanford University in 1960 and served as an Army officer.
