Former New York Times reporter John Markoff has been writing about the intersection of technology and culture for decades. On April 23, he will read from his latest book, a new biography of Stewart Brand, of Whole Earth Catalog fame.

Introducing his latest book – Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

Author John Markoff in Conversation with Award-winning Journalist Nicole Perlroth. For decades Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter John Markoff has chronicled how technology has shaped our society. In his latest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand, Markoff delivers a biography of one the most influential visionaries to inspire technological and cultural revolutions of the last six decades in counterculture, early computing, and the environmental movement.

We can't wait for host John Markoff in celebration of his new title Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand which is set to release on March 22nd, 2022.

This event is free to attend and currently slated to be in-person. We are monitoring the COVID situation and remain committed to following all public heath guidelines. We are flexible and will hold this event virtually if need be.

Iconic counterculture icon Stewart Brand has been at the center of many of the social and cultural movements launched and nurtured in the Bay Area. Whether it be early computing, the Merry Pranksters and the hippies, the generation-defining Whole Earth Catalog, or the environmental movement, Brand has been at the center of them all. Yet many outside these movements only know him because Apple founder Steve Jobs quoted Brand's famous mantra—stay hungry, stay foolish—in a famous Stanford University commencement speech. Legendary science and technology writer John Markoff hopes to elevate an understanding of Brand's impact on our world.

Join us for an illuminating evening with journalist John Markoff in conversation with Long Now's Co-founder Stewart Brand and Executive Director Alexander Rose around Markoff's new biography of Brand.