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At risk of being redundant (I've mentioned this book a few times), I highly recommend Stewart Brand's "The Whole Earth Discipline". [1] Brand, for those unfami
by gdubs 10y ago
At risk of being redundant (I've mentioned this book a few times), I highly recommend Stewart Brand's "The Whole Earth Discipline". [1]
Brand, for those unfamiliar, was a key player in the personal computer revolution of the 1970's. He created the "Whole Earth Catalog", which inspired many of the internet's pioneers, and was a hero of Steve Jobs. He later helped create "The Well" -- the first big online community, and was present at countless other cultural moments like the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests, and the forming of the Green movement.
The Whole Earth Discipline chronicles his early participation in the environmental movement, and how he's diverged from that movement over the years.
It's presented as a pragmatic guide for addressing climate change and explores things like urbanization, genetic modification of food, and nuclear power -- and how these things need to be reconsidered by environmentalists.
1: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6411373-whole-earth-discipline http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6411373-whole-earth-disci...
- MaysonL 10y agowas a key player in the personal computer revolution … was present at countless other cultural moments One of the first major cultural moments he participated in was the "Mother of All Demos" - he was the camera operator at Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center in Menlo Park. This was the experience that turned him on to personal computing.