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04572aam a2200493 i 4500 001 B69EA874A68011EC81502DCE2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220318010028 008 211030s2022 nyua b 001 0beng 010 $a 2021039442 020 $a 0735223947 020 $a 9780735223943 035 $a (OCoLC)1258071702 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d ZGX $d IEB $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ca $a n-us-ca 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20211208 100 1 $a Markoff, John, $e author. 245 10 $a Whole Earth : $b the many lives of Stewart Brand / $c John Markoff. 246 30 $a Many lives of Stewart Brand 264 1 $a New York : $b Penguin Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Shoppenagon -- On the golden shore -- Acid -- American Indian -- Multimedia -- Access to tools -- Coevolution -- Anonymity -- Learning -- Float upstream. 520 $a "From one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of iconic serial visionary Stewart Brand, from the Merry Pranksters and the generation-defining Whole Earth Catalog to the marriage of environmental consciousness and hacker capitalism and the rise of a new planetary culture--the story behind so many other stories. Stewart Brand has long been famous if you knew who he was, but for many people outside the counterculture, early computing, or the environmental movement, he is perhaps best known for his famous mantra 'Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.' Steve Jobs's endorsement of these words as his code to live by is fitting; Brand has played many roles, but one of the most important is as a model for how to live. The contradictions are striking: a blond-haired WASP with a modest family inheritance, he went to Exeter and Stanford and was an army veteran, but in California in the 1960s he was an artist and a photographer in the thick of the LSD revolution. While tripping on acid on the roof of his building, he envisioned how valuable it would be for humans to see a photograph of the planet they shared from space, an image that in the end landed on the cover of his Whole Earth Catalog, the defining publication of the counterculture. He married a Native American woman and was committed to protecting indigenous culture, which connected to a broader environmentalist mission that has been a through line of his life. At the same time, he has outraged purists because of his pragmatic embrace of useful technologies, including nuclear power, in the fight against climate change. The famous tagline promise of his catalog was 'Access to Tools'; with rare exceptions he rejected politics for a focus on direct power. It was no wonder, then, that he was early to the promise of the computer revolution and helped define it for the wider world. Unlike most people, who make a mark in one field, Brand has a life that can be hard to fit onto one screen. John Markoff, also a great chronicler of tech culture, has done something extraordinary in unfolding the rich, twisting story of Brand's life against its proper landscape. As Markoff makes marvelously clear, the streams of individualism, respect for science, environmentalism, and embrace of Eastern and indigenous thought that flow through Brand's entire life form a powerful gestalt, a California state of mind that has a hegemonic power to this day. At its best, it is the wellspring for a true planetary consciousness that may be the best hope we humans collectively have"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Brand, Stewart. 650 0 $a Technologists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Appropriate technology $z United States $x History. 630 00 $a Whole Earth catalog (Menlo Park, Calif.) 650 0 $a Counterculture $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Technology $z California, Northern $x History. 650 0 $a Futurologists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Technological innovations $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Journalism, Technical $z United States $x History. 651 0 $a California, Northern $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 5 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417020014.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629015004.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630013720.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220507010237.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220318010233.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B69EA874A68011EC81502DCE2FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search