Kevin Kelly
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Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. He has also been a writer, photographer and conservationist. Kelly is considered an expert in digital culture, and is said to have helped make technology part of popular culture. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, The Economist and other well-established periodicals.
In 1994, Wired Magazine won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Kelly is now editor at large for Wired. He is a former editor of Whole Earth Review (see CoEvolution Quarterly), Signal, and some of the later editions of the Whole Earth Catalog. With Whole Earth's founder, Stewart Brand, Kelly helped found the WELL, a highly regarded online community. He has been a director of the Point Foundation, which sponsored the first Hackers Conference in 1984 (before the word "hacker" had its current common, negative connotation). He also runs [www.kk.org].
Kelly is noted as a participant and observer of "cyberculture" who has no trouble seeing beyond the often narrow limits of this contemporary subculture. Among Kelly's strong personal interests is a campaign to make a full inventory of all living species on earth, an effort also known as the Linnaean enterprise. The All Species Inventory received a million dollars in funding, which is currently endorsed by many quarters in biology as "an idea whose time has come." The goal is to make an attempt at an "all species" web-based catalog in one generation (25 years).
Publications
Kelly's writing has appeared in many national and international publications such as The New York Times, The Economist, Time, Harper's Magazine, Science, GQ, and Esquire. His photographs have appeared in Life and other American national magazines.Books
- : The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (Perseus Books, 1995)
- New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (Penguin, 1999)
- Bicycle Haiku (2001)
- Asia Grace (2002)
- Cool Tools (2003)
- Bad Dreams (2003)
Lectures
- [Speculations On The Future Of Science by Kevin Kelly]. Lecture to Long Now Foundation, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. March 10th, 2006.
- [The Next Fifty Years of Science by Kevin Kelly]. Google TechTalk, May 9th, 2006. (47 minutes)
Blog
The Matrix (1999 film)
Andy and Larry Wachowski, writers/directors of the film The Matrix, required the principal actors of the film to read three books prior to the start of filming, including Kelly’s 1995 book . The other two were Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard and Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans, Oscar Zarate (Illustrator), Richard Appignanesi (Editor).Kelly can be seen in a series of interviews on "The Roots of the Matrix" disk in the 10-disk DVD The Ultimate Matrix Collection set.
External links
- [Kevin Kelly's biography]
- [Audio | Kevin Kelly has a revelation.]
- [All Species Inventory]
- [Ask Metafilter]: Kelly asks, "What is the proper netiquette for editing a Wikipedia entry about yourself?"
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