Kevin Kelly

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

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. 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 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.