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Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and a former editor and publisher of the Whole Earth Review. He has also been a writer, photographer, conservationist, and student of Asian and digital culture. Life Kelly was born in Pennsylvania in 1952, and graduated from Westfield High School, Westfield, New Jersey, in 1970. Through his father, an executive for Time who used systems analysis in his work, Kelly developed an early interest in cybernetics. He attended the University of Rhode Island for one year, studying geology. Kelly has traveled extensively, backpacking in Asia. While travelling in the Middle East, he had a conversion experience and became a born-again Christian. He was raised Catholic. He lives in Pacifica, California, a small coastal town just south of San Francisco. He is married to the biochemist Gia-Miin Fuh and has three children: Kaileen, Ting, and Tywen. He regrets not having a fourth child. Among Kelly's personal involvements is a campaign to make a full inventory of all living species on earth, an effort also known as the Linnaean enterprise. He is also sequencing his genome and co-organizes the Bay Area Quantified Self Meetup Group. Career Kelly began contributing freelance articles to CoEvolution Quarterly in 1980, while living in Athens, Georgia. Around this time he was also editing his own start-up magazine called Walking Journal, and working in an epidemiology laboratory to support himself. He was hired in 1983 by Whole Earth founder Stewart Brand to edit some of the later editions of the Whole Earth Catalog, the Whole Earth Review, and Signal. With Brand, Kelly helped found the WELL, an influential virtual community. As director of the Point Foundation, he co-sponsored the first Hackers Conference in 1984. In 1992, Kelly was hired by Louis Rossetto to serve as executive editor of Wired, which was launched in March 1993. He brought to the magazine the cybernetic social vision of the Whole Earth publications and their networked style of editorial work, while also recruiting writers and editors from the WELL. He stepped down as executive editor in 1999; his current job title at Wired is Senior Maverick. Partially due to his reputation as Wired's editor, he is noted as a participant in and an observer of cyberculture. Kelly's writing has appeared in many other national and international publications such as The New York Times, The Economist, Time, Harper's Magazine, Science, Veneer Magazine, GQ, and Esquire. His photographs have appeared in Life and other American national magazines. As well as serving as editor on many publications, Kelly has written many novels surrounding his interest in cybernetics and all things tech. He is known for coining the term "The Technium," the accumulation of all technologies and inventions as a working, living system. Much of his work revolves around technology as a "living organism." He even refers to "The Technium" as the seventh kingdom of nature, that is self-organizing and autonomous. Kelly's book-length publication, Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (1992), presents a view on the mechanisms of complex organization. The central theme of the book is that several fields of contemporary science and philosophy point in the same direction: intelligence is not organized in a centralized structure but much more like a bee-hive of small simple components. Kelly applies this view to bureaucratic organisations, intelligent computers, and to the human brain. He helped found the All Species Foundation. He was a futurist adviser on the Steven Spielberg-directed movie Minority Report. Kelly has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans. Select works Books Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (Basic Books 1992, Fourth Estate, 1995) New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (Penguin, 1999) "Photographers section: Kevin Kelly," pp. 106–111, in Lloyd Kahn, editor 2004 Home Work (Shelter Publications, 2004) True Films (2006) "Forward: 1000 True Fans," pp. 3–8, in Be The Media, David Mathison, editor, (2009) What Technology Wants (2010) Cool Tools (2013) – Tool reviews collected from his weblog of the same name in large scale format similar to Whole Earth Catalog The Inevitable (2016) Vanishing Asia: Three Volume Set: West, Central and East Photographs, text and design by Kevin Kelly (1084 pages) (2021) Photography and art Asia Grace (2002) Bad Dreams (2003) Bicycle Haiku (1995) Lectures Speculations on the Future of Science by Kevin Kelly. Lecture to Long Now Foundation, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. March 10, 2006. The Next Fifty Years of Science by Kevin Kelly. Google TechTalk, May 9, 2006. (47 minutes) How Technology Evolves by Kevin Kelly Talk at the TED Conference in Monterey, CA, February 2005. (21 minutes) The next 5000 days of the Web by Kevin Kelly Archived November 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Talk at the EG 2007 Conference in Monterey, CA, December 2007. Technium Unbound by Kevin Kelly SALT Talk for The Long Now Foundation. November 12, 2014. Cool Tools at XOXO by Kevin Kelly Talk at XOXO Festival 2014, Portland, OR. References Works cited External links Kelly's personal site Kevin Kelly's Blog, The Technium "How Computer Nerds Describe God". Kevin Kelly. Christianity Today. Dec. 2002. Kelly's Vision of the Future of Cinema Audio Kevin Kelly has a revelation. Roberts, Russ. "Kevin Kelly Podcasts". EconTalk. Library of Economics and Liberty. Kevin Kelly at TED "How technology evolves" (TED2005) "The next 5,000 days of the web" (EG conference 2007) "Technology's epic story" (TEDxAmsterdam 2009) Works by Kevin Kelly at Open Library . Discover the Kevin Kelly popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Kevin Kelly books.
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Out of Control
Kevin KellyOut of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things...
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Pillars Of Salt
Joanna BellAlice's world is blown apart when her husband Rob dies suddenly of a heart attack in another woman's bed. Only 40, Rob was an energetic, opinionated, handsome local GP. This wasn'...
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Flinders
Grantlee KiezaThe extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the mapIn 1810, Matthew Flinders made his final voyage home to his beloved wife, Ann, his body ravaged by ...
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The Inevitable
Kevin KellyA New York Times BestsellerFrom one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and t...
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Hudson Fysh
Grantlee KiezaThe extraordinary life of the Gallipoli veteran and WWI Flying Corp gunner who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wingsBy the critically acclaimed author of bestselling biograph...
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The Last Unknowns
John BrockmanDiscover the universe's last unknownshere are the unanswered questions that obsess "the world's finest minds" (The Guardian)Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNE...
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Summary of the Inevitable
InstareadSummary of The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly | Includes Analysis Preview: The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future is Kevin Ke...
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Dear NHS
Various AuthorsTHE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERCurated and edited by Adam Kay (author of multimillion bestseller This is Going to Hurt), Dear NHS features 100 household names telling their ...
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Bad Dreams
Kevin KellyI once took a class with the brilliant black and white photographer Minor White. He had us perform all kinds of wonderful exercises on our photographs. At the time of the workshop ...
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The Unprotected
Kelly SokolA compelling debut novel exploring postpartum depressionfor readers of suspenseful women’s fiction and fans of Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin.They say motherhood chan...
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Monash
Grantlee KiezaStunning trade paperback edition of Grantlee Kieza's bestselling biography of Australia's greatest generalIt's December 1918 and the world war is over. General Sir John Monash atte...
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Knockout
Grantlee KiezaA noholdsbarred collection of Australian boxing yarns by one of Australia's bestselling storytellers and boxing aficionado, Grantlee KiezaBoxing has given Australian sport some of ...
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Know This
John BrockmanToday's most visionary thinkers reveal the cuttingedge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand.Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understandi...
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OMG Posters
Mitch PutnamTHE ULTIMATE COLLECTION OF GIG POSTERS FROM TODAY’S TOP ROCK AND INDIE BANDSLaunched in 2007, OMGPosters.com has become one of the world’s favorite art blogs, showcasing thousands ...
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Red-Blooded American Male
Robert TrachtenbergA collection of 100 inspired and surprising portraits of celebrities and everymen alike from the awardwinning photographer Robert Trachtenberg.Paul Rudd checking out...
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The Golden Child
Wendy JamesA finalist for the 2017 Ned Kelly Award For readers of Zoje Stage's Baby Teeth, a gripping psychological thriller that asks the question: Can a child be born evil? ...
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Ego
Aaron PatrickThe riveting story of an exprime minister, the travails of his successor's government, and what that bodes for the future of politicsMalcolm Turnbull's campaign against Scott Morri...
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Summary of The Inevitable From Kevin Kelly
Better Business SummariesThe Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces that Will Shape our Future by Kevin Kelly | SummaryBook Preview:Technology is moving and evolving rapidly in an almost unp...
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Bicycle Haiku
Kevin KellyBicycle Haiku is a reproduction of a sketchbook I kept while I rode my bicycle across the US in 1979. It contains an ink sketch and a haiku for each day of the three month 5,000 mi...