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Podcast: The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
Episode: Why Civilization Needs Better Manuals
Description: Today's guest is the legendary Stewart Brand, who has spent decades shaping how we think about technology, the environment, and the future.
He first came to prominence in the 1960s as a Merry Prankster and the co-creator of the Whole Earth Catalog, the counterculture bible that helped inspire personal computing, the hacker ethic, and the modern environmentalist movement. Since then he's launched the Long Now Foundation, championed nuclear power and deextinction, and pushed us to think in 10,000-year time horizons. He's also been the subject of two biographies (From Counterculture to Cyberculture and Whole Earth: The Many...