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John Markoff: Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

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What Is Stuart's Beat Generation?

Stuart Smith was a member of the 'silent generation' at Stanford University. He and his friends went out to live in communes but got bored quickly. They then came up with their own inventions that made them good business people. But he says they had fond fantasies about not getting jobs, having their noses rubbed by bosses.

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