The outsiders that he backed are now not just the insiders, but really the people who are responsible for the state of the world.

And that's a tough situation to be taken responsibility for considering the state of the world. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us.

And this week my guest is Malcolm Harris.

Malcolm is the writer of books like kids these days, shit is fucked off and bullshit, and his new book that comes out early next year called Palo Alto.

That one's available for pre-order now.

He also writes for New York Magazine.

In this episode, however, we're talking about a review he wrote recently for The Nation of John Markov's Whole Earth, the many lives of Stuart Brand.

For people who pay close attention to the tech industry, they'll be familiar with the name

Stuart Brand.

He holds a really important position in the narrative that Silicon Valley likes to tell

itself about its own history.

He founded the Whole Earth Catalog back in the late 1960s, and that became a kind of cultural

touchstone.

It was something that Steve Jobs and that many other tech founders pointed back to as something

that inspired them, something that gave them ideas about, you know, the kind of world that they

wanted to see and the technologies that they wanted to create.

Markov's new book goes through many phases of Brand's life and how he was feeling in

different parts of them, the things that he was doing.

And to be quite honest, even though it's a biography that's written by someone within

Stuart Brand's circle who knows a lot of the people around him, it doesn't give the greatest picture of

the man who's supposed to hold this really important position in the tech industry's history.

In his review, Malcolm pulls this apart and looks at what that actually means for how we should

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