Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand is an American writer, editor, and entrepreneur best known as the founder and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, which won a National Book Award in 1972. He is co-chair and president of the board of directors of the Long Now Foundation, which he co-founded in 1996 to foster long-term thinking. His most recent book, Maintenance: Of Everything, was published by Stripe Press in 2025, building on his earlier works including Whole Earth Discipline and How Buildings Learn.