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, United States, in 1952, and graduated from Westfield High School, Westfield, New Jersey, in 1970. He was a futurist adviser on the Steven Spielberg-directed movie Minority Report.

Kelly has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss's book Tools of Titans.

Select works

thumb|Kelly in 2022

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)
  • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier (2023)

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.
  • 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 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

  • Kelly's personal site
  • Kevin Kelly's Blog, The Technium
  • "How Computer Nerds Describe God". Kevin Kelly. Christianity Today. December 2002.
  • Kelly's Vision of the Future of Cinema
  • Audio Kevin Kelly has a revelation.
  • "How technology evolves" (TED2005)
  • "The next 5,000 days of the web" (EG conference 2007)
  • "Technology's epic story" (TEDxAmsterdam 2009)