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Jessica Zack April 15, 2021
Stewart Brand, writer and founder of “Whole Earth Catalog,” adjusts his hat inside the Mirene, a converted 1912 tugboat he and his wife Ryan Phelan call home in Sausalito. Photo: Stephen Lam, The Chronicle
For a devoted futurist like Stewart Brand, who is famous for his projections about technology and the environment, looking at his own past doesn’t necessarily come naturally.
Given his fame as creator of the iconic 1960s DIY handbook “Whole Earth Catalog” (described by Steve Jobs as “Google in paperback form”), and later as an influential technologist at the forefront of the personal computing revolution, numerous filmmakers have asked the Marin cyberculture legend to make a movie about his life. But Brand never wanted to waste precious time or energy on nostalgia. He said no to the idea of a biopic until filmmakers Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado approached Brand in 2017.
Predicting the future has been a pass-time for offals of birds readers, Christians, Nostradamuses, “intelligence agencies” and super-computers. Every time a new prediction is made with more “precision”, someone goes on the barricade and shouts that the sea level rise rise predicted for 2100 won’t be as bad, because new calculations show the previous estimate to be 25 per cent over the new recalibrated predictions. Hurrah!, claims an article in RT, “F ck Climate Crisis” is the picture used to demonstrate how wrong “we’ve been so far”…
So, instead of drowning in 2100, your city by the sea will become totally submerged, only by 2150. Hurrah! Meanwhile the same experts from Utrecht University told us that 2035 will be a turning point as well… (https://www.uu.nl/en/news/deadline-for-climate-action-act-decisively-bef.)
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