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.

References

• Phil Garlington, "Stewart Brand," Outside magazine, December 1977.
• Sam Martin and Matt Scanlon, "The Long Now: An Interview with Stewart Brand," Mother Earth News magazine, January 2001 http://www.findarticles.com/articles/mi_mi1279/is_2001_Jan/ai_66961751
• "Stewart Brand" (c.v., updated October 2001) http://www.well.com/user/sbb/bio.html
• Massive Change Radio interview with Stewart Brand, November 2003 http://www.massivechange.com/PDF/INF_StewartBrand.pdf
• Whole Earth Catalog, various issues, 1968-1980.
• CoEvolution Quarterly (in the 1980s, renamed Whole Earth Review, later just Whole Earth), various issues, 1974-2002.