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Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and former publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. Kelly is considered an expert in digital culture, and is said to have helped make technology part of popular culture. Download high resolution version (589x736, 307 KB)Portrait of Kevin Kelly; per http://www. ... Download high resolution version (589x736, 307 KB)Portrait of Kevin Kelly; per http://www. ... Wired magazine is a full-color monthly magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. ... The Whole Earth Catalog was a catalog published twice a year from 1968 to 1972 (and occasionally thereafter, until 1998) for the purposes of providing education and access to tools for one to find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. ...


In 1994, Wired won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Kelly is now editor at large for Wired magazine. 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). The National Magazine Award has been presented annually since 1966 by the American Society of Magazine Editors. ... CoEvolution Quarterly (later re-named Whole Earth Review) was one of the publishing ventures of the same visionary biologist (with interests in cultures and in art) who launched the Whole Earth Catalog and an early Internet community, still functioning, called the WELL. Stewart Brand is the name of this editor... The Whole Earth Catalog was a catalog published twice a year from 1968 to 1972 (and occasionally thereafter, until 1998) for the purposes of providing education and access to tools for one to find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. ... Stewart Brand speaking September 5, 2004 Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938 in Rockford, Illinois) is an author, editor, and creator of The Whole Earth Catalog, CoEvolution Quarterly, and the pioneering online community The WELL. He has also been an appointee to California state government and is one of the... For the pioneering virtual community, see The WELL. A well is commonly a pipe or tube installed in an artificial boring in the earth through which water, oil or gas can be obtained. ... Hacker is a term used to describe different types of computer experts. ...


Among Kelly's strong personal interests is a campaign to make a full inventory of all living species on earth. 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. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Front cover, May 7, 2005 The Economist is a market liberal weekly news and international affairs publication of The Economist Newspaper Limited in London. ... 8:17 am, August 6, 1945, Japanese time. ... An issue of Harpers Magazine from 1905 Another issue, from November 2004 Harpers Magazine (or simply Harpers) is a monthly general-interest magazine covering literature, politics, culture, and the arts. ... Science is the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. ... Actor Nicholas Cage on the cover of the March, 1997 issue of GQ (U.S. edition) Gentlemens Quarterly, most often known simply as GQ, is a monthly mens magazine that focuses on mens fashion and style. ... Esquire is a magazine for men owned by the Hearst Corporation. ... A cover of Life Magazine from 1911 Life has been the name of two notable magazines published in the United States. ...


Books

  • Out of Control: 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)

External links

  • Kevin Kelly's biography (http://www.kk.org/biography/index.php)
  • All Species Inventory (http://www.all-species.org)
  • Ask Metafilter (http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/14973): Kelly asks, "What is the proper netiquette for editing a Wikipedia entry about yourself?"

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Kevin Kelly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (566 words)
Kevin Kelly (1952-) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog.
Kelly is noted as a participant and observer of "cyberculture".
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.
Steve Best-Douglas Kellner: Kevin Kelly's Complexity Theory (8489 words)
Kelly argues we need new paradigms, new ideas, and new practices to make sense of and deal with the tumultuous changes that we are undergoing due to the global restructuring of the economy, the proliferation of new technologies, rapid social, political, and cultural change, and the emergence of new modes of thought.
Kelly is most apt in his description of the novelties of a postindustrial capitalism, or what he terms a "soft capitalism." Hard-style industrial capitalism still exists, of course, but Kelly claims that soft-capitalism is quickly devouring it, as steel, iron, and lumber irrevocably are being sucked into the fl hole of information, circuitry, and software.
For Kelly, therefore, we are at a key crossroads between the old and the new, "between a resource-based economy and a connected-knowledge one."[xliii] In fact, Kelly does not theorize the current crossroads between the old and the new, as he fails to adequately analyze the continuities and discontinuities between the industrial and postindustrial economic systems.
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