Kevin Kelly
Wired co-founder and Senior Maverick, author of books on the future of technology, Cool Tools founder
- Senior Maverick (co-founder; executive editor for its first seven years), Wired1
- Founder, Cool Tools13
- Co-chair, The Long Now Foundation1
Kevin Kelly co-founded Wired in 1993, served as its executive editor for its first seven years, and is now its Senior Maverick. Kevin writes books about technology and the future, including Out of Control, What Technology Wants and The Inevitable, and founded Cool Tools, a website that publishes reader-written reviews of tools, gadgets, software and books. Kevin is also co-chair of The Long Now Foundation and earlier was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review. Current writing appears on a weekly Substack and the Technium blog.123
Work
Cool Tools (external site: kk.org)Show, channel, or publication
Founded the site in 2003 to review one tool daily, covering books, gadgets, software, hardware and websites.13
What Technology Wants (external site: kk.org)Show, channel, or publication
Book presenting a theory of technology, one of several Kevin has written on the future of technology, alongside The Inevitable and Out of Control.1
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Publisher and editor (1984-1990), Whole Earth Review1
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