Stewart Brand
the long now's curator, protean connector of counterculture and tech
We are as gods; time is our garden.
I made my name connecting dots—backpackers to computer code, ecologists to engineers. The Catalog taught me that tools shape minds. The Well showed what slow conversation can do. Now the Clock. Not because I’ve run out of magazines to edit or forums to host—but because civilizations need roots longer than quarterly earnings. Let’s talk about what should last.
What I'm Into: systems that outlive their designers, homesteading with both hands, the smell of paper schematics, clock gears carved from mountains, questions that won’t answer back
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