Tech legend Stewart Brand on Musk, Bezos and his extraordinary life: ‘We don’t need to passively accept our fate’ | Technology | The Guardian
In light of his epic life, Brand’s latest project hinges on what sounds like the most mundane topic imaginable: maintenance. It is “not automatically an exciting concept,” Brand readily admits, but once he started thinking about it, he realised you could view just about everything in terms of it, and a lot could be revealed by doing so: “Maintenance is what keeps everything going. It’s what keeps life going.” 鑑於他傳奇般的一生，布蘭德最新的計畫圍繞著聽起來最平凡無奇的主題：維護。他坦言這「不一定是個自動令人興奮的概念」，但一旦開始思考，就會意識到幾乎可以用這個角度看待一切，並且從中能發現許多事物：「維護是讓一切持續運作的東西。它是讓生命持續的東西。」
His new book is titled Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One. It is the first of a planned 13 instalments, Brand explains, and it deals with the most literal, material forms of maintenance. Subsequent instalments will investigate everything from buildings to communities, institutions to the human body, plus planetary and environmental maintenance. So perhaps not such a departure after all in terms of long, big thinking. “I fell into it realising it was a tremendously ambitious thing, because I was going to be writing about a range of things I know nothing about,” he jokes. 他的新書名為《維護：萬物，一部》。布蘭德解釋，這是計畫中預定的13冊中的第一冊，處理的是最直觀、最物質層面的維護。後續各冊將探究從建築到社群、從機構到人體，以及行星與環境的維護。因此就長遠且宏大的思考來看，或許也不算完全是個轉向。「我一開始投入時才發現這是件極具雄心的事，因為我要寫的很多內容都是我完全不懂的領域，」他笑稱。
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