Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938 in Rockford, Illinois) is an author, editor, and creator of The Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly. His intent with the Whole Earth Catalog was to enable people to find virtually any sort of information useful to themselves, in the belief that humans would then develop a new, positive and sustainable culture and technology for themselves; in this way, his ideas were forerunners of the Internet. Hence, Brand later pioneered the online community The WELL. Brand is noted as an editor who published writings by many of the now-acknowledged innovative thinkers of today, early in their careers. He is one of the co-founders of the Global Business Network. Brand was also one of a group of "futurists" consulted in the planning stage of the feature film Minority Report.

Books

• II Cybernetic Frontiers, 1974, ISBN 0394492838 (hardcover), ISBN 0394706897 (paperback)
• The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT, 1987, ISBN 0670814423 (hardcover); 1988, ISBN 0140097015 (paperback)
• How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built, 1994. ISBN 0670835153
• The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility, 1999. ISBN 046504512X

As editor or co-editor

• The Whole Earth Catalog (original editor, winner of the National Book Award, 1972)
• Whole Earth Epilog: Access to Tools, 1974, ISBN 0140039503
• The (Updated) Last Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools, 16th edition, 1975, ISBN 0140035443
• Space Colonies, Whole Earth Catalog, 1977, ISBN 0140048057
• As co-editor with J. Baldwin: Soft-Tech, 1978, ISBN 0140048065
• The Next Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools, 1980, ISBN 0394739515;
• The Next Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools, revised 2nd edition, 1981, ISBN 0394707761
• As editor-in chief: Whole Earth Software Catalog, 1984, ISBN 0385191669
• As editor-in-chief: Whole Earth Software Catalog for 1986, "2.0 edition" of above title, 1985, ISBN 0385233019
• As co-editor with Art Kleiner: News That Stayed News, 1974-1984: Ten Years of CoEvolution Quarterly, 1986, ISBN 0865472017 (hardcover), ISBN 0865472025 (paperback)
• Introduction by Brand: The Essential Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools and Ideas (Introduction by Brand), 1986, ISBN 0385236417
• Foreword by Brand: Signal: Communication Tools for the Information Age, editor: Kevin Kelly, 1988, ISBN 051757084X
• Foreword by Brand: The Fringes of Reason: A Whole Earth Catalog, editor: Ted Schultz, 1989, ISBN 051757165X
• Foreword by Brand: Whole Earth Ecolog: The Best of Environmental Tools & Ideas, editor: J. Baldwin, 1990, ISBN 0517576589