Stewart Brand joined The Maintainers listserv in 2019 - see below - and he attended the Maintainers III conference, also in 2019. He knows there are entire scholarly communities studying maintenance and repair. He's not ignorant; he's just a dick.
Lee Vinsel
“This series, I'm pretty sure, is the first to look at maintenance in general.”
Okay right off the bat, no. Lee Vinsel and Andrew Russell wrote an excellent book, The Innovation Delusion, which is all about how Silicon Valley ignores maintenance and celebrates “disruption.”
Brand oughta know that
