Kevin Kelly (editor)
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Born | 1952 (age 71–72) Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of
Life
Kelly was born in Pennsylvania in 1952,[1] and graduated from Westfield High School, Westfield, New Jersey, in 1970.[2] Through his father, an executive for Time who used systems analysis in his work, Kelly developed an early interest in cybernetics.[3] He attended the University of Rhode Island for one year, studying geology.[4]
Kelly has traveled extensively, backpacking in Asia. While travelling in the Middle East, he had a conversion experience and became a
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.[2] He regrets not having a fourth child.[4]
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
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.[3]
He was hired in 1983
In 1992, Kelly was hired by
Kelly's writing has appeared in many other national and international publications such as
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,
He helped found the All Species Foundation.[8][9] He was a futurist adviser on the Steven Spielberg-directed movie Minority Report.[10]
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 weblogof 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 Conferencein 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 Festival2014, Portland, OR.
References
- ^ Kelly, Kevin. "Kevin Kelly Biography".
- ^ a b c Kelly, Kevin. "Biography". kk.org. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
- ^ a b c Turner 2006, p. 131.
- ^ Stephen Dubner (January 22, 2015). "Someone Else's Acid Trip"(Podcast). Retrieved January 30, 2015.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
- ^ Turner 2006, p. 132.
- ^ Turner 2006, p. 209.
- ^ Kelly, Kevin. "Biography". Kevin Kelly. Archived from the original on May 18, 2019. Retrieved July 28, 2019.
- ^ Hitt, Jack (December 9, 2001). "The Years in Ideas: A to Z.; The All-Species Inventory". The New York Times. Retrieved July 28, 2019.
- ^ Cadwalladr, Carole (June 12, 2016). "Digital prophet Kevin Kelly: I've learned a lot from Spielberg". The Guardian.
Works cited
- Turner, Fred (2006). From counterculture to cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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.
- Library of Economics and Liberty.
- Kevin Kelly at TED
- Works by Kevin Kelly at Open Library