Icebreaker: Stewart Brand

Nov. 6, 2009

Back in the '60s and '70s, Stewart Brand spearheaded the hippie "back to the Earth" movement as editor of the infamous National Book Award-winning "Whole Earth Catalog." In the '90s he founded pioneering social network The Well. And these days he's busy angering many of his former colleagues with a new book, "The Whole Earth Discipline," in which he argues environmentalists should embrace nuke power and GMO's. For us, he found a joke in a haystack.

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