Stewart Brand

If ever there was an environmentalist perfectly comfortable with technology, it is Stewart Brand, the founding editor of the legendary Whole Earth Catalog and later, The Whole Earth Review. Sympathetic with the plight of the plundered Earth since studying biology at Stanford University in the late '50s, Brand has always been an enthusiastic proponent of putting tools into the hands of worthy users. Anyone who's gotten their hands on those catalogs--whether they're from the '60s or the '90s--knows Brand believes wholeheartedly that putting the right tools in the right hands can change the world for the better. "We are as Gods and might as well get good at it," he wrote in the 1968 edition of the catalog.

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