Person

John Markoff

Bylines

Google Before the Invention of Google

What started the Information Age?

by John Markoff via Los Angeles Times on March 28, 2018

Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

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Stewart Brand’s Dubious Futurism

What did the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog stand for?

by Malcolm Harris via The Nation on June 13, 2022

On Floating Upstream

Markoff’s biography of Stewart Brand notes that Brand’s ability to recognize and cleave to power explains a great deal of his career.

by W. Patrick McCray via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 22, 2022

Douglas Engelbart wearing an earpiece, sitting at a computer, in 1968.

The Future, Revisited: “The Mother of All Demos” at 50

How the ’60s counterculture gave birth to personal computers and the vast tech industry that builds and sells them.

by Andy Horowitz via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 8, 2018

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