I have a couple of personal heroes, and one of them is Stewart Brand.
There’s a great NYTimes article on Brand’s views on nuclear power, and how it’s the saviour of the ideals of the ecological movement, which linked to a couple more articles, one of which had this fucking excellent ‘Brandism:
bq. “I would like to see a generation of environmentalists take on genetic engineering as a dedicated tool for the environment. Grow commercial wood directly—so straight-grained and close-grained and beautiful and inexpensive that cutting a wild tree for lumber would seem ludicrous.”
bq. “Starting in the 1960s, hackers turned computers from organizational control machines into individual freedom machines. Where are the green biotech hackers?”
_That’s why he’s a genius_
(Via NYTimes, via Kottke.)