From 1984-1990 he was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He helped launch Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until 1999. Kevin Kelly has no college or university degrees; however his writing appears in the New York Times, Esquire, The Economist and other periodicals. 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 Linnaean enterprise. Earlier in life, he was a photographer in remote parts of Asia (instead of going to college), publishing his photographs in national magazines and recently in the photo art book Asia Grace.

Topics

• The Future of Business and Economics
• The Network Economy
• Cyberculture
• New Technologies
• The Power of the Internet
• The Future for Global Businesses

Publications

• Vanishing Asia, (2022)
• The Next 5,000 Days, (2021)
• The Inevitable, (2016)
• Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities (2013)
• The Silver Cord (2012)
• What Technology Wants (2010)
• Top Jobs: How They Are Different and What You Need to Succeed (2009)
• True Films (2006)
• Bad Dreams (2003)
• Cool Tools (2003)
• Asia Grace (2002)
• New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
• Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
• Bicycle Haiku (1995)