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Stewart Brand, Time Traveler

Part one of our conversation: how to think on the scale of the Long Now

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Steven Johnson
Oct 13, 2021
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This is the first in a regular series of conversations I’ll be hosting with some of the smartest and most interesting people I know, conducted in the style of the informal but ruminative threads that some of us used to write back in the early days of email. I can’t think of a better initial guest than Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog an…

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