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EP 164 John Markoff on the Many Lives of Stewart Brand

The Jim Rutt Show

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The Whole Earth Catalogue

Stewart was thinking a lot about his dad, who was very sick. He had this epiphony that the buildings weren't exactly parallel. So he came down off the roof with this campaign in mind. Why haven't we seen a photograph of the whole earth? The butt button became the symbol of a generation.

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