Mammoths resurrected and other thoughts from a futurist | Stewart?Brand

Stewart Brand is a futurist, counterculturist and visionary with a very wide-ranging mind. He was born in 1938 in Illinois, and he is an author, publisher and creator of the Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly publications, and founder of the WELL virtual community. Brand is best known for the Whole Earth Catalog, an anthology of tools, texts and information of interest primarily to hippies. This catalog was intended to catalyze the emergence of a world of private power by creating technology that was easy to use and affordable for those eager to create sustainable communities.

In the futuristic ecosystem, Brand is all-known because of his position as a President of the Board of Directors of The Long Now Foundation, a private organization founded in 1996 with the aim of fostering long-term thinking, coordinating various discussion forums and projects on issues that would affect humanity for the next 10,000 years. Some of the projects they maintains are the Rosetta Project, the Long Now Clock, the Long Bet Project, the Open Source Timeline Tool and several monthly seminars on topics such as life extension, the SETI project, ecology, possible threats to the survival of humanity, or the nature of time. The other directors are Danny Hillis, Brian Eno, Kevin Kelly, Esther Dyson y Doug Carlston.

Besides his TEDTalk, The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?, there is also a very interesting conversation with Chris Anderson (TED Curator) where they talked about almost everything: human nature, contraculture, bringing back the wooly mammoth, geoengineering, rewilding, science as organized skepticism… And The Sixth Extinction. I recommend to watch it. It’s awesome to hear someone who has lived so much things…

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