Four decades ago Stewart Brand opened The Whole Earth Catalog with a rollicking mission statement: "We are as gods, and might as well get good at it."
This month, Just Imagine took a look at cities, the ways in which they might change in the future and what this might mean for the people who live in them.
Shamita Naidoo said she often wonders whether anyone really ever sees her. She also wonders the same thing about the hundreds of people living around her, in tiny tin shacks perched underneath gum trees on a nearby hill.
Robert Oppenheimer agonized over building the A-bomb. Alfred Nobel got queasy about creating dynamite. Robert Propst invented nothing so destructive. Yet before he died in 2000, he lamented his unwitting contribution to what he called "monolithic insanity."
Fortune: The Great Escapeupdated: Wed Mar 08 2006 16:39:00
Robert Oppenheimer agonized over building the A-bomb. Alfred Nobel got queasy about creating dynamite. Robert Propst invented nothing so destructive. Yet before he died in 2000, he lamented his unw...
Perhaps because the world looks tilted from Stewart Brand's office, a rickety fishing boat propped at a curious angle in a California parking lot, it doesn't seem all that strange when he lifts a h...
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