Stewart Brand
The latest news and comment on American writer Stewart Brand
August 2016
Acid trips, black power and computers: how San Francisco’s hippy explosion shaped the modern world
You Say You Want a Revolution, the V&A’s new exhibition, explores the birth of late-1960s counterculture that helped spawn Silicon Valley. Alex Needham takes a tour of where it all began, guided by former hippies and subversive visionaries
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Whole Earth visionary
A former soldier, he joined the Merry Pranksters and learned business skills from hippie drug dealers. He gave away profits from his successful publishing venture, moved into computers and is currently raising funds to catalogue every species on the planet. Andrew Brown on an influential, highly idiosyncratic American thinker