Kevin Kelly (edit name/settings)

Kevin Kelly has been a participant of, and reporter on, the information technology revolution for the past 20 years. Based in his studio in Pacifica, California, he immerses himself in the long-term trends of technology, tools, new media, and cultural behavior. He writes about the ripple effects and social consequences surrounding the culture of technology. Kevin's next book, due October 2010, is entitled What Technology Wants and will present a refreshing view of technology as as living force in the world. Kevin Kelly is currently Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He helped launch Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until January 1999. During Kelly’s tenure as editor at Wired, the magazine won two National Magazine Awards (the industry’s equivalent of two Oscars). He is also currently editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets 1 million visitors per month. From 1984-1990, Kevin was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy, and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control (called “required reading for all executives” by Fortune). In addition, he writes for prominent publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Time, Harpers, Science, GQ, and Esquire. Earlier in life, Kevin was a photographer in remote parts of Asia (instead of going to college), publishing his photographs in national magazines and recently in the photo art book Asia Grace.

FOCUS AREAS
What's on Kevin's current research agenda?

Kevin is currently researching his next book, in which he hopes to answer the question, “What does technology want?” He’s posting his thoughts-in-progress on The Technium, a semi-blog.

He feeds his ongoing obsession for great tools with a weekly email notice containing personal reviews of gear, books, and software that he and others find indispensable. Anything that assists individual education, empowerment, or possibilities is a candidate. To subscribe, go to http://www.kk.org/cooltools/subscribe. (Furthermore, if you know of something that should be included but isn't, please write to him.)
Kevin serves as Chairman of the Board of All Species Foundation, a non-profit organization aimed at cataloging and identifying every living species on earth.
He’s also heavily focused on the exciting work at the Long Now Foundation, where he serves on the board. Long Now is a non-profit group dedicated to fostering long-term responsibility as an antidote to the extremely short-term horizon of most contemporary organizations. Kevin and Stewart Brand co-host Long Now public seminars each month featuring talks on long-term thinking. Past speakers include Brian Eno, Paul Hawken, Danny Hillis, among the better known, and many other equally talented original thinkers. The forums happen every second Friday of the month at Fort Mason in San Francisco, and they are free to the public.
 
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