1960s Rebels: Stewart Brand - Tech Visionary

The late 1960s saw progressive ideas emanate from the countercultural underground and revolutionise society. Challenging oppressive, outdated norms and expectations, a small number of individuals brought about far-reaching changes as they sought to attain a better world. Their idealism and actions helped mobilise a movement which continues to inspire modern activists and shape how we live today.
Stewart Brand was involved in a number of the key revolutionary events of the late 1960s: he co-founded the Trips Festival of 1966, one of the first large-scale hippy gatherings; founded and edited the Whole Earth Catalog, widely considered the pre-cursor to the internet for its user-generated content and knowledge-sharing; and he filmed the ‘Mother of All Demos’ in 1968, where Douglas Englebart presented the first word processing, computer mouse, hyperlinks and video conferencing. Since then, Brand has co-founded the world's first open virtual community, the WELL, in 1984 and the Long Now Foundation in 1996, which aims to encourage long-term thinking to prompt more responsible human action.
You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966 - 1970
10 September 2016 - 26 February 2017
vam.ac.uk/revolution

[@iansmith3593]

Stewart Brand has lived a hundred varied lives. I’ve heard that a writer is working on an SB biography. Can’t wait until it comes out.

[@normanbaratelli4651]

Spent every free moment in high school in the library reading his Whole Earth Catalogue.

[@ConanXin]

1960年代的反叛者：斯图尔特·布兰德（Stewart Brand）--技术远见者
20世纪60年代末，进步的思想从反主流文化的地下发源，并彻底改变了社会。挑战压迫性的、过时的规范和期望，少数人带来了意义深远的变化，因为他们寻求实现一个更美好的世界。他们的理想主义和行动帮助动员了一场运动，它继续激励着现代活动家，并塑造了我们今天的生活方式。
斯图尔特·布兰德（Stewart Brand）参与了20世纪60年代末的一些关键性的革命事件：他共同创办了1966年的Trips Festival，这是最早的大规模嬉皮士集会之一；创办并编辑了《全球概览》（Whole Earth Catalog），因其用户生成的内容和知识共享而被广泛认为是互联网的前身；他还拍摄了1968年的"所有演示之母"（Mother of All Demos），道格拉斯·恩格尔巴特（Douglas Engelbart）在演示中首次提出文字处理、电脑鼠标、超链接和视频会议。从那时起，布兰德在1984年共同创立了世界上第一个开放的虚拟社区--WELL，并在1996年创立了Long Now基金会，其目的是鼓励长期思考，以促使人类采取更负责任的行动。

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This dude is so cool

[@jonclement]

i'd love to see a graph of influence buckminister fuller -> stewart -> Fred moore ---->

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it's ASA the Bank Guard from Mayberry ,

[@markheller197]

Silicon Valley is a direct result. Look at its location.

[@doctorcrankyflaps1724]

CIA operative his entire life. Messing up humanity for the sake of what?

[@iansmith3593]

DoctorCrankyFlaps Please explain both the CIA part and the messing up humanity part.

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Read the book Surveillance Valley​@@iansmith3593

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pizzagate