Stewart Brand Says He’s Still an Optimist

The actual title is "What the Silicon Valley Prophet Sees on the Horizon"

https://archive.ph/ImxC0

In 2005, Mr. Jobs gave a commencement address at Stanford, cited Mr. Brand as a major influence in his life and explained what “Whole Earth” was to a younger generation: “It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along,” he said. “It was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.”