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Stewart Brand: man of ideas and infuriating contrarian

16 April 2022

9:00 AM

16 April 2022

9:00 AM

Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand John Markoff

Penguin Press, pp.416, 32

In his 2005 book What The Dormouse Said John Markoff traced the roots of the personal computer industry to the counterculture of the 1960s – a tale that owed as much to Jefferson Airplane as Jeffersonian ingenuity. Constantly popping up in that narrative is the adopted Californian Stewart Brand. Markoff wrote of his ‘Zelig-like penchant’ for being present at turning points in the story.

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