KEVIN KELLY

 

 

A member of the The Long Now Foundation board of directors.

Kevin Kelly is the Editor at Large (formerly Editor in Chief) at Wired Magazine. He was involved in the 01993 launch of this influential magazine, and has been editing the magazine since. In 01994 and 01997, during Kelly's tenure, Wired won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. From 01984-01990 he was publisher and editor of the "Whole Earth Review," a journal of unorthodox technical news. He is a founding board member of the WELL, a Sausalito-based teleconference system that is viewed as a model of online community. He edited "Signal," a Whole Earth Catalog of personal communication tools. He launched Cyberthon, the first round-the-clock virtual reality jamboree.

Kelly’s book on how machines are becoming biological is called Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and Economics. In 01998 he also published New Rules for the New Economy. He is also a member of the Global Business Network, a distributed think tank specializing in future scenarios for global-minded businesses. He has written for Time, the New York Times, the Economist, GQ, and Harpers. His latest book Asia Grace is currently available from Taschen.