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Stewart Brand’s Dubious Futurism | The Nation

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What did the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog stand for?

June 13, 2022 This article appears in the June 27/July 4, 2022 issue . Illustration by Tim Robinson. Stewart Brand is not a scientist. He’s not an artist, an engineer, or a programmer. Nor is he much of a writer or editor, though as the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog , that’s what he’s best known for. Brand, 83, is a huckster—one of the great hucksters in a time and place full of them. Over the course of his long life, Brand’s salesmanship has been so outstanding that scholars of the American 20th century have secured his place as a historical figure, picking out the blond son of Stanford

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