What Technology Wants
by Kevin Kelly · 14 Jul 2010 · 476pp · 132,042 words
- Seeking Conviviality PART FOUR - DIRECTIONS Chapter 13 - Technology’s Trajectories Chapter 14 - Playing the Infinite Game Acknowledgements Annotated Reading List Source Notes Index ALSO BY KEVIN KELLY Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a
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0RL, England First published in 2010 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Copyright © Kevin Kelly, 2010 All rights reserved LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA Kelly, Kevin, 1952- What technology wants / Kevin Kelly. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. eISBN : 978-1-101-44446-7 1. Technology’—Social
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culture of tools: David Nye. (2006) Technology Matters: Questions to Live With. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 12, 28. 14 one mega-scale computing platform: Kevin Kelly. (2008) “Infoporn: Tap into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer.” Wired, 16 (7). http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/st_infoporn_1607. 14 eyes
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_61_Billion. Calculation based on comScore’s figure for the number of searches performed in a month. 14 5 percent of the world’s electricity: Kevin Kelly. (2007) “How Much Power Does the Internet Consume?” The Technium. http://www.k k.org/thetechnium/archives/2007/10/how_much_power.php. This figure
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Long Now Foundation. http://www.longnow.org/seminars/02008/jan/11/embracing-uncertainty-the-secret-to-effective-forecasting/. 196 some kind of consequence of that: Kevin Kelly and Paula Parisi. (1997) “Beyond Star Wars: What’s Next for George Lucas.” Wired, 5 (2). http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/fflucas
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necessity: Theodore Kaczynski. (1995) “Industrial Society and Its Future.” http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Industrial_Society_and_Its_Future. 201 civilization would collapse by 2020: Kevin Kelly. (1995) “Interview with the Luddite.” Wired, 3 (6). http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/saleskelly.html. 201 readings focused on the theme called
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as a Theme in Political Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, p. 13. 241 Duration of Prohibitions: Data compiled from research gathered by Michele McGinnis and Kevin Kelly in 2004; originally presented at http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2006/02/the_futility_of.php. 242 “in the defense of fortifications and on
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to tyrannize”: Barry Schwartz. (2004) The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less. New York: Ecco, p. 2. 287 U.S. Patent Office by 2060!: Kevin Kelly. (2009) Calculation extrapolated by the author based on historic U.S. Patent data. http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/h_counts
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a sperm whale: Lori Marino. (2004) “Cetacean Brain Evolution: Multiplication Generates Complexity.” International Journal of Comparative Psychology , 17 (1). 330 about 100 quadrillion (1017) transistors: Kevin Kelly. (2008) “Infoporn: Tap into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer.” Wired, 16 (7). http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/st_infoporn_1607. 330 generates
Cool Tools in the Kitchen
by Kevin Kelly and Steven Leckart · 1 Dec 2011 · 134pp · 22,616 words
Cool Tools in the Kitchen Kevin Kelly and Steven Leckart Editor Brian Jepson Copyright © 2011 Kevin Kelly and Steven Leckart 2011-10-05 First release O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also
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items daily, maintaining software, measuring analytics, managing ads, and in general keeping the site alive. As Kevin Kelly’s personal librarian, she also oversees research, web production and ebook conversions for many of his publishing projects. KEVIN KELLY, Publisher Kevin founded Cool Tools and edited all reviews through 2006. He writes the occasional review
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ourselves on the mix. The Cool Tools website began in 2003. However Cool Tools started even earlier, in 2000, as an email list run by Kevin Kelly, a founding editor of Wired Magazine and, prior to that, publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog and its quarterly journal. The Whole Earth
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
by Kevin Kelly · 6 Jun 2016 · 371pp · 108,317 words
ALSO BY KEVIN KELLY Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a
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: A Catalog of Possibilities VIKING An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014 penguin.com Copyright © 2016 by Kevin Kelly Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of
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are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader. ISBN 9780525428084 (hardcover) ISBN 9780698183650 (ebook) Version_1 CONTENTS Also by Kevin Kelly Title Page Copyright INTRODUCTION 1. BECOMING 2. COGNIFYING 3. FLOWING 4. SCREENING 5. ACCESSING 6. SHARING 7. FILTERING 8. REMIXING 9. INTERACTING 10. TRACKING 11
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,” Wired, July 24, 2007. urinal in the men’s restroom: Nicholas Negroponte, “Sensor Deprived,” Wired 2(10), October 1, 1994. “not enough Africa in them”: Kevin Kelly, “Gossip Is Philosophy,” Wired 3(5), May 1995. Project Jacquard: Virginial Postre, “Google’s Project Jacquard Gets It Right,” BloombergView, May 31, 2015. prototype from
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
up powering disinformation operations that catapulted right-wing politicians into office. Digital marketer Rick Webb, who once “worshipped at the altar of Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly,” captured the disillusionment in his 2017 “internet mea culpa,” calling the internet a “terrordome.” The new face of tech was no longer an archetypal West
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
by Paul Kingsnorth · 23 Sep 2025 · 388pp · 110,920 words
lot more momentous than the newspapers are telling us. The unifying driver is the desire for trans-cendence: the latest stage in what another transhumanist, Kevin Kelly, in his book What Technology Wants, calls our ongoing ‘liberation from matter’. I don’t mean to suggest that the activists currently beavering away to
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can, in fact, still talk about these strange, underlying forces as long as we use the correct language. Take for example the Silicon Valley philosopher Kevin Kelly’s pet notion that technology has its own mind and its own purpose: that through the web of what he calls ‘the technium’, something is
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: a less provocative name, for now, than Moloch or Antichrist. Let’s keep it simple. Let’s just call this force ‘Progress’. Then, à la Kevin Kelly, let’s ask ourselves a simple question: What does Progress want? * * * • • • The Italian philosopher Augusto Del Noce saw the modern era as a thorough and
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’s analysis of the modern revolution, and the rootless, spiritless, immanent world it had produced, pointed to the ultimate destination as both totalitarianism and nihilism. Kevin Kelly, of course, would disagree. For him and his fellow tech idealists, the clearing-away of the transcendent realm is only a precursor to building another
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’s new religion, Terasem, says that by building AI systems ‘we are making God’.[17] Fellow transhumanist Elise Bohan says ‘we are building God’.[18] Kevin Kelly believes that ‘we can see more of God in a cell phone than in a tree frog’.[19] ‘Does God exist?’ asks Google maven Ray
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, we can combine this claim with Marshall McLuhan’s notion that digital technology provides the ‘central nervous system’ of some new consciousness, or tech guru Kevin Kelly’s belief in a self-organising technium with ‘systematic tendencies’. We can add them to the feeling of those AI developers that they are ‘ushering
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January 2016, https://www.davidcayley.com/blog/2016/½/the-apocalypse-has-begun-ivan-illich-and-ren-girard-on-anti-christ. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 1 Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants (Penguin, 2010), 12. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 2 Augusto Del Noce, The Crisis of Modernity (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014), 35
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner · 31 Aug 2006 · 339pp · 57,031 words
, Michael Callahan, John Coate, Doug Engelbart, Bill English, Lee Felsenstein, Cliff Figallo, David Frohman, Asha Greer (formerly Barbara Durkee), Katie Hafner, Paul Hawken, Alan Kay, Kevin Kelly, Art Kleiner, Butler Lampson, Liza Loop, John Markoff, Jane Metcalfe, David Millen, Nancy Murphy, Richard Raymond, Danica Remy, Howard Rheingold, Louis Rossetto, Peter Schwartz, Mark
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the decade, the Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link, or the WELL. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, Brand and other members of the network, including Kevin Kelly, Howard Rheingold, Esther Dyson, and John Perry Barlow, became some of the most-quoted spokespeople for a countercultural vision of the Internet. In 1993 all
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turned digital media into emblems of network members’ own, shared ways of living, and evidence of their individual credibility. Again and again, Brand, and later Kevin Kelly, Howard Rheingold, John Perry Barlow, and others, gave voice to the techno-social visions that emerged in these discussions. As they did, they were welcomed
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the transformation, and, while they were at it, business in general. Proponents of this view included telecommunications executives, hightech stock analysts, and right-wing politicians. Kevin Kelly, a former editor of the quarterly Whole Earth Review, which had grown out of the original Catalog, helped to bring them all to the pages
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t h e C o m p u t at i o n a l M e t a p h o r [ 15 ] For Kevin Kelly, executive editor of Wired, this new way of living and the ways in which digital technologies served and modeled it marked a revolutionary transformation in
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, they established a private conference through which software reviewers from around the country could submit their work for the Catalog. One of these reviewers was Kevin Kelly, the future executive editor of Wired magazine. The son of an executive for Time magazine, Kelly had spent years backpacking in Asia. Through his father
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and their concerns at the center of the Whole Earth community. That year, a handful of selfdescribed computer hackers had been working with Art Kleiner, Kevin Kelly, and others to help generate ideas for the Software Catalog. But hackers as a group came to Brand’s attention only when one of the
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to act as individuals and binding them in a community of like minds. The hacker ethic helped make hackers particularly appealing to Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly. Soon after Levy had shown them his book, Brand and Kelly got in touch with members of the hacking community, including Lee Felsenstein; Bill Budge
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text-based forum that was designed to be both a business and a community, one that would be governed in a nonhierarchical manner. In 1993 Kevin Kelly, an editor of CoEvolution Quarterly when the WELL was founded and, later, executive editor of Wired, recalled that the WELL team had seven design goals
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its promotional video for its cyberspace initiative. Various journalists and science fiction writers also collaborated to link virtual reality to LSD. Ultimately, this group included Kevin Kelly and Stewart Brand, but its earliest and most active members were the writers and editors of the magazine Mondo 2000, including John Perry Barlow.61
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who could not have been described as hackers but who had been longtime, high-visibility participants on the WELL. These included Stewart Brand, Howard Rheingold, Kevin Kelly, and John Perry Barlow. Tough later recalled that he chose these participants in part for the fact that they had participated in debates about hacking
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congenial to many members of the Whole Earth network, and as the economic and technological whirlwinds of the late 1980s gathered speed, Brand and, later, Kevin Kelly, drew heavily on the intellectual and social resources of the group. Each created new network forums in which formerly distinct communities could come together, exchange
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individuals into [ 175 ] [ 176 ] Chapter 6 the principals and clients of a small but highly influential consulting firm, the Global Business Network. For his part, Kevin Kelly linked computer simulation experts affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory and its offshoot, the Santa Fe Institute, to prairie ecologists, Biospherians, and programmers at Xerox
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in Networking the New Economy [ 177 ] 1985,” Brand later explained, “I had no idea whatever about futures and was operating strictly on reflex.”2 Since Kevin Kelly had taken over the editorship of the Whole Earth Review, and since the WELL seemed to be selfsustaining, Brand felt ready to leave Sausalito for
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the New Left had condemned became homes to the transformed states of mind and leveled bureaucracies that the counterculturalists had worked so hard to create. Kevin Kelly as Network Entrepreneur For the founders of GBN, computer networks were but one in a series of overlapping systems that included member networks, meeting series
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the founders of GBN, computers were only one of several forces driving the leveling of bureaucracies and the rise of networked patterns of organization. For Kevin Kelly, in contrast, computers became the signal emblems of a new era in human development. In the late 1980s, Kelly extended the social and institutional networks
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they themselves had set, the scientists could and did imagine themselves, not unlike the early readers of the Whole Earth Catalog, “as gods.”49 For Kevin Kelly, the 1987 conference on artificial life sparked a series of epiphanies. First, it validated the long-standing Whole Earth embrace of systems theory. If the
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social ladder, many executives labored under a sense that they were surrounded by forces beyond their control.65 In the cybernetic pages of his book, Kevin Kelly suggested that yes, in fact, they were—and that it was okay, even natural, to feel at sea. Toward the end of the Harvard Business
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clock that would keep time for ten thousand years, so as to encourage humans to focus on the long-term consequences of their actions.67 Kevin Kelly became executive editor of Wired magazine. In that capacity, he helped turn the social networks that he and Brand had helped create into symbols of
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most influential five years suggests that the magazine’s vision of the digital horizon emerged in large part from its intellectual and interpersonal affiliations with Kevin Kelly and the Whole Wired [ 209 ] Earth network and, through them, from the New Communalist embrace of the politics of consciousness.4 Although Louis Rossetto and
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on the magazine, Rossetto and Metcalfe also drew heavily for funds and, later, for subjects and writers, on the Whole Earth world. In 1992, while Kevin Kelly was finishing up Out of Control, Rossetto hired him to serve as executive editor of the magazine. Kelly brought with him the simultaneously cybernetic and
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of one of the most important networking events in the computer industry, the soon-to-be-annual Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) Conference. In 1988 Kevin Kelly gave Electric Word an enthusiastic review in Signal, thus alerting a number of San Francisco Bay area technology journalists to its existence. Around the time
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presence. . . . I thought he was a lost soul.”7 Rossetto and Metcalfe also made a trip through California at about this time and met with Kevin Kelly as well. Kelly was not much more interested than Wolff had been, at least at first.8 By 1991, though, Electric Word had gone out
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, more fully developed prototype of the magazine, complete with a glossy look and feel, flashy graphics, and actual stories. Up until he saw this prototype, Kevin Kelly had been watching Rossetto and Metcalfe from a distance, expecting them to fail. But, says Kelly, “The minute I saw the [new] prototype I knew
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alongside new communication technologies, nor exclusively among those who made and marketed those technologies, nor even in the 1990s. Rather, this particular version of what Kevin Kelly called the “computational metaphor” had been coming together for decades. Since the late 1960s, Stewart Brand and others associated with various Whole Earth publications had
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players from the Whole Earth world and the Wired [ 217 ] WELL. And Louis brought in Europe and the global perspective, tying it all together.”18 Kevin Kelly agreed. When he was at Wired, he later said, he thought of himself as a “nonjournalist.” Kelly meant for Wired to be a forum for
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year later, while Gingrich’s portrait graced the cover of Wired, Dyson and Gilder returned to the Aspen conference, taking with them John Perry Barlow, Kevin Kelly, and Stewart Brand, as well as bionomist Michael Rothschild and representatives from Microsoft, America Online, and Sun Microsystems. In keeping with the Whole Earth’s
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and depended for its success on editorial tactics first developed in the Whole Earth publications. George Gilder’s relationship with Wired, for instance, began when Kevin Kelly interviewed him in the magazine’s fourth issue. At first glance, Kelly and Gilder would seem to be an odd match. During the same decades
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ecosystem than machine”; it was “a bioelectronic environment that is literally universal.” Systems metaphors collided apace: like Gilder’s first interview at Wired, or like Kevin Kelly’s book Out of Control, the “Magna Carta” argued that computer systems and ecosystems modeled and interpenetrated one another. They also modeled the land of
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, it should allow “much greater collaboration between the cable industry and phone companies.” In a twist of logic reminiscent of George Gilder’s comments to Kevin Kelly on “nested hierarchies,” the document went on to argue that “obstructing such collaborations”—and, presumably, the near-monopolies that could result—“is socially elitist.”46
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sponsored by the PFF. This time, the PFF extended invitations not only to Dyson, Toffler, and Keyworth, but also to John Perry Barlow, Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, and executives from Microsoft, America Online, and Sun Microsystems. Corporate sponsors of the event paid $25,000 to attend (other visitors paid $895), and many
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life and the run-up in the stock market, were simply tastes of things to come. Two months after “The Long Boom” appeared in Wired, Kevin Kelly amplified its conclusions and linked them to the social and intellectual networks he had brought together in his book Out of Control. In an article
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as an information system seeking homeostasis had offered cold war Americans a framework with which to imagine their own survival in a nuclear era. In Kevin Kelly’s work, however, that vision offered readers a glimpse of a new and more turbulent renewal: Silicon chips linked into high-bandwidth channels are the
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Louis Rossetto to step down as chief executive officer of Wired Ventures. Five months later, he left the staff of the magazine altogether; soon thereafter, Kevin Kelly followed suit. Not long after this, the stock market’s dot-com bubble began to leak and then suddenly burst. Wired’s techno-libertarian optimism
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the building of broadband pipelines, the sale of computers, and the distribution of soon-to-be-worthless stock. But that would be a mistake. Although Kevin Kelly, Peter Schwartz, and Wired magazine certainly helped fuel the raging optimism of the period, their technoutopian social vision in fact reflected the slow entwining of
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their associations with military or even government roots, they have come to be seen as economic and cultural forces, and even, in the writings of Kevin Kelly and the Wired group, at least, as forces of nature. And it is here that the counterculture’s contribution to the rise of postindustrial society
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time was a new economic and political world. Thanks in large part to the example of the Global Business Network and to the writings of Kevin Kelly and Peter Schwartz, as well as to the work of Wired magazine as a whole, many began to imagine that the New Communalist dream of
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a nonhierarchical, interpersonally intimate society was on the threshold of coming true. Despite their libertarian orientation, the writings of Esther Dyson, John Perry Barlow, and Kevin Kelly in this period fairly ache with a longing to return to an egalitarian world. For these writers and, due to their influence, for many others
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. Cultural Entrepreneurship in the Network Mode Between the founding of the Whole Earth Catalog in 1968 and the departure of Louis Rossetto, Jane Metcalfe, and Kevin Kelly from Wired magazine some thirty years later, then, Stewart Brand and the editors, writers, and entrepreneurs associated with the Whole Earth publications completely reversed the
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coordinated those collaborations, Brand quickly learned to speak the contact languages developing around him. In this way, he and others like him, including most prominently Kevin Kelly and the writers of Wired, gave voice to an ongoing integration of ideas and practices that had first appeared in the New Communalist and hightechnology
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worlds. Having helped that synthesis to emerge in interpersonal collaboration among multiple communities, and having helped link it to new computing technologies, Brand, and later Kevin Kelly, Peter Schwartz, and others, found themselves in a unique position to “report” the synthesis as “news” to the rest of the world. T h e
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as they suggested that such a world would in fact represent a return to a more natural, more intimate state of being, writers such as Kevin Kelly, Esther Dyson, and John Perry Barlow deprived their many readers of a language with which to think about the complex ways in which embodiment shapes
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Century,” esp. 40 – 61. 66. Ibid., 68. 67. The Long Now Foundation is still active at this writing. Founding members included computer designer Danny Hillis, Kevin Kelly, Esther Dyson, musician Brian Eno, Peter Schwartz, and others. In 1999 Brand published a book, The Clock of the Long Now, about the clock project
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. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981. Bertalanffy, Ludwig von. General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications. New York: G. Braziller, 1968. Best, Steven, and Douglas Kellner. “Kevin Kelly’s Complexity Theory: The Politics and Ideology of Self-Organizing Systems.” Organization and Environment 12, no. 2 (1999): 141– 62. Bey, Hakim. T.A.Z
Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)
by Adam Fisher · 9 Jul 2018 · 611pp · 188,732 words
, it was with one publisher, but my editor went to Doubleday and I went with him. Doubleday was also doing the Whole Earth Software Catalog. Kevin Kelly: Nobody was reviewing software then. It was considered completely nerdy, insignificant, hard to review: “Software” was floppy disks being sold in little baggies produced
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and when Hackers came out, so the lifetimes that I experienced around computers made it seem always very slow and kind of boring and frustrating. Kevin Kelly: For me there was this new interest in this culture that was emerging around the programmers. I was talking to Stewart about the fact that
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Marin. It was barracks, really primitive barracks. Steven Levy: It was at this old army camp in the Headlands. A beautiful place, Fort Cronkhite. Kevin Kelly: And so some of the people who we invited came. The number 114 sticks in my mind. I think that was maybe the number of
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incredibly alone, that there was no one else like them. There was this consciousness that came out there: Oh, this is who I am! Kevin Kelly: Back then you had hippies and you had preppies. The nerds were just so off the radar that encountering them was exhilarating because you realized
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showing off their latest stuff. Andy was showing his latest hack. Andy Hertzfeld: Software, groundbreaking software, is at its most dramatic at the very beginning. Kevin Kelly: Andy was jumping up and down, he was so excited. He was literally jumping up and down. And he was calling his hacker friends over
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bunks. It was cold at night. Stewart Brand: What we knew was that hackers would be perfectly comfortable in low-rent circumstances—and they were! Kevin Kelly: This was still early days, so they weren’t like the billionaires that they later would become. They were people who had real jobs and
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own way and described something that was happening—and would happen much more on the internet, in a way that just made people grasp it. Kevin Kelly: Maybe the reason why it was launched into prominence is because of what I call the zero price point option, the idea that free
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office in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the ambassador to India in New Delhi, the UN office in New York, and Aerospace Seattle’s office in Paris. Kevin Kelly: This was the dawn of bulletin board systems. Larry Brilliant: There was no e-mail, remember. Howard Rheingold: On a BBS, there was one
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he started was a software computer company. What it does is set up conferencing through computers. The first beta-test site was the Seva Foundation. Kevin Kelly: Larry is a very entrepreneurial guy. Ram Dass: The stock of the NETI Corporation endowed the Seva Foundation. Larry Brilliant: Then I said, “Stewart,
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technology and a couple hundred grand, and you provide the customer base, the family, the community, you run it, and we split it fifty-fifty?” Kevin Kelly: So we started The Well in 1985. Fabrice Florin: The Well stood for “Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link.” Stewart Brand: I had seen online teleconferencing.
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. So, based on those experiences, we designed what became called The Well to reflect what had been learned about online discussions at that point. Kevin Kelly: What Whole Earth wanted to do was to try out the experiment of what happens if you open this up to ordinary people. How does
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early on he wanted to be able to serve his community with the right tools that would allow people to communicate and share ideas effectively. Kevin Kelly: Whether it was ever articulated or not, what Whole Earth was doing was trying to make it work in terms of governance, best practices,
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the hacker community, the Hackers Conference. Stewart Brand: We made it easy to make conferences, and people would invent conferences. Anybody could start a conference. Kevin Kelly: It was kind of a hack: The software was buggy, but sort of open and easy to modify. Lee Felsenstein: All the people who had
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audio tapes. They were digitized and available online, but the only way you could find the location online was to do it through The Well. Kevin Kelly: And once they would come into the Deadhead conferences they would spill over. They would say, “Oh, you have a thread on gardening. Wow!”
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Stewart, he attracted people who had these incredibly eclectic minds, and they were phenomenal writers, people who think in paragraphs. And the writing was fantastic! Kevin Kelly: That made for a very literate salon-like environment where people who could write were writing—and writing well and writing very directly. So some
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party happening in the walls of your house. You know, people were talking about serious things and exchanging knowledge, but they were also having fun. Kevin Kelly: Stewart and I, we were living on The Well. This was the beauty of it. Lee Felsenstein: It was an experiment. An attempt to
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infuse their culture into an online system. They were feeling their way, as anybody would have to, since it really hadn’t been done before. Kevin Kelly: I can’t remember what the first conference was, but very quickly there was a conference about The Well itself, because we quickly learned that
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That was not something we thought about before. Why do you need moderators? Lee Felsenstein: They assigned me to moderate the hackers’ section of it. Kevin Kelly: That became one of the biggest jobs that we had: people having to moderate the conversation. Lee Felsenstein: And so I had to bust up
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out of this. There’s nothing there.” And, you know, “Calm down, for God’s sake.” It was worth the effort. But it took effort. Kevin Kelly: These systems are natural amplifiers, and negative things are somehow easier to amplify or become much louder than positive things, there’s something about a
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to each other. They pretended to be each other. They thought they were just spoofing, but actually it was mortally insulting stuff they were doing. Kevin Kelly: We were asking ourselves, “What do we do about this? Are we legally liable?” And again that’s the kind of stuff that, at
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. Larry Brilliant: And the reason that The Well succeeded was because of those things—not because of the software, not because of the money. Kevin Kelly: It was all new territory and it was very formative, because there’s very little that’s happened since that wasn’t present in the
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never a commercial success. It may have paid its own way, just barely. What could be tried with this medium? That was the thing. Kevin Kelly: Eventually it was sold to Salon, but it was really too late at that point. Stewart Brand: It had great continuity and those people stayed
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. David Levitt: And waking up to that could not have felt more alien. “Oh my God, gravity is sideways!” It was just too much. Kevin Kelly: And it was very fun, kind of surprisingly fun to just explore a fantastical world with nonsense entities and creatures and stuff. And so the
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his whole philosophy and he’s going on and on. Jaron Lanier: Postsymbolic communication, yeah. I used to go on and on about that stuff. Kevin Kelly: I didn’t understand anything he was saying. Tom Zimmerman: Then Young Harvill and Young’s wife, Ann, started working on these bodysuits instrumenting the
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magazine called Language Technology, which became Electric Word. We changed the name in the middle of its life. Jane Metcalfe: We sent a copy to Kevin Kelly. Louis Rossetto: We had a piece on Anthony Burgess about how word processing affects writing. And a piece on Nicholson Baker, who was a word
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worker, a novelist. This is like the seed for everything that came out ultimately in Wired. Kevin Kelly: And I thought, Wow, this is interesting! So I reviewed it for Whole Earth. I called it “the least boring computer magazine there was.”
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Louis Rossetto: He had written this gracious thing. And so we said, “We want to go meet Kevin Kelly.” And so we went to visit him in his chaotic office. He had billions of books all over the place. Jane Metcalfe: Stacks and stacks
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and stacks of books everywhere. Kevin Kelly: I was interested in the culture of technology. I felt that there was something big moving there, and I was interested in trying to move
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the trains running on time: a managing editor. So I called Kevin; he came down to our office. He listened to this whole idea. Kevin Kelly: I was surprised. I thought I had successfully discouraged them from pursuing this idea. But they weren’t giving up. Louis had a prototype that
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managing editor, just a fucking demon, and she became our PR person. The two of them in lots of ways made the whole thing happen. Kevin Kelly: John Battelle was a key hire. He was right out of grad school with a lot of experience, tremendous drive, very organized. The one
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could sit at his computer for hours on end, his fingers jabbing at his keyboard like it was a karate exercise, just getting it done. Kevin Kelly: For the last week Louis came up with these kamikaze headbands. He wanted everybody to wear these headbands in solidarity or something. I never
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it would be some sort of electronic networked future, but we didn’t know what that would look like. How could we make it visible? Kevin Kelly: Color on the computer was no extra cost. Therefore there should be an extravagant use of color, because it’s free. Eugene Mosier: Adding
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flipping through those first pages was intended to be disorienting and disruptive. To take Marshall McLuhan’s advice and make the medium be the message. Kevin Kelly: In the first issue you have Bruce Sterling, you’ve got Stewart Brand, you’ve got Van Der Leun. I was basically taking the
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need this magazine to understand what’s happening.” Louis Rossetto: We had no reference to the world wide web in the first issue of Wired. Kevin Kelly: We were accused of being completely clueless about the internet, because we had no mention of the internet in the first issue. But I
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and microcelebrity. Joey Anuff: A big part of the premise of Suck was “What if somebody published something new every day?” Nobody was doing that. Kevin Kelly: Every day is essentially what a blog is about. Because at the time we had home pages. “Build your own home page!” That was the
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exciting about the breaking of news on the Web that can make an otherwise bullshit-quality story smell sweeter than Glad Potpourri-in-a-Spray. Kevin Kelly: The supersnarky—that’s the style. A thousand sites do that now, but at the time, it was sort of naked and unabashed. No
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his mechanical thing but he would come into all the virtual reality parties. There were all kinds of virtual reality parties. There were all kinds. Kevin Kelly: Cyberthon was in ’90. I was inspired by Stewart Brand to see what you could do with a happening. And once I intersected with
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And Kevin and Stewart and Barlow and a variety of other sort of vaguely psychedelic-era intellectuals were always putting together weird events and happenings. Kevin Kelly: And so my idea was to bring together all the current demos and prototypes for VR and let anybody who wanted to try them try
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get hired by the right firm.” It’s that attitude. Programming is the safe job. It’s the safe job for smart people. Po Bronson: Kevin Kelly and Stewart Brand had lent the early technology this incredible gravitas and nobility and high-mindedness. The ultimate thing was your mind—mind expansion. Prior
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we to become? The best answers to those questions come from those who’ve already built the future: the one that we live in today. Kevin Kelly: The biggest invention in Silicon Valley was not the transistor but the start-up model, the culture of the entrepreneurial start-up. Marc Porat:
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machine learning; incredible progress has been made in machine learning the last three or four years. A broader way of saying it is artificial intelligence. Kevin Kelly: The fundamental disruption, the central event of this coming century, is going to be artificial intelligence, which will be underpinning and augmenting everything that we
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by just increasing the scale, suddenly things started working incredibly well. It kind of shocked the computer science world, that they started working so good. Kevin Kelly: So just like the way we made artificial flying, we’re going to make new types of thinking that don’t occur in nature. It
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that our legal system can’t really handle them. The problem with autonomous cars is that it’s the manufacturer who is driving that car. Kevin Kelly: Humans should not be allowed to drive! We’re just terrible drivers. In the last twelve months humans killed one million other humans driving.
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thing Silicon Valley is particularly excited about right now is artificial reality, or you might say mixed reality or whatever you want to call it. Kevin Kelly: That VR vision of the alternative world is still there, but the new thing is this other version of “augmented” or “mixed” reality, where
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machine-learning kinds of technologies we are creating now? So, look—chess champions, right? They got beat by Deep Blue back in the nineties, right? Kevin Kelly: When Garry Kasparov lost to Deep Blue he complained to the organizers, saying, “Look, Deep Blue had access to this database of every single chess
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people are online, so it has begun. Steve Jobs: Humans are tool builders. And we build tools that can dramatically amplify our innate human abilities. Kevin Kelly: We are making a set of tools that will allow us humans to collaborate and cooperate and to work together in making things and making
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a discontinuity or more calamity and disruption, and then unintended consequences follow, which then produces another period of push and then, and so on. Kevin Kelly: So when I think of the future of Silicon Valley I see it as still being the center of the universe as defined by having
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entire galaxy, and other galaxies. If that’s actually, really possible, it’s going to be phenomenal, and that’s being developed right now. Kevin Kelly: Not only will our tools tell us about ourselves, but they also will inform us as we invent new versions of ourselves. And it’s
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are making. And that networked thing is the main event. Scott Hassan: It’s going to be like nothing you see today. Realistically? Nothing. Kevin Kelly: That’s the big story. Am I going big enough for you? Cast of Characters Chris Agarpao used to go to see Jackie Chan movies
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one half of Hovey-Kelley Design, a product design start-up out of Stanford University, which has since evolved into the industrial design powerhouse IDEO. Kevin Kelly is curiously old-fashioned for an editor and writer who has made a career out of roaming over the horizon and hunting down the future
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5: Tom Munnecke/Getty. 6: Courtesy of Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC. 7: Courtesy of Dave Staugas. 8: Courtesy of Douglas Mellor. 9, 10, 11: Courtesy of Kevin Kelly. 12: Courtesy of Mark Pauline and 6th Street Studios. 13: Courtesy of Louis Rossetto. 14: Bloomberg/Getty. 15: Scott Beale/Laughing Squid. 16: Courtesy of
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
by Evgeny Morozov · 15 Nov 2013 · 606pp · 157,120 words
might result in Wikipedia-inspired solutions that misrepresent its spirit. “The bureaucracy of Wikipedia is relatively so small as to be invisible,” proclaims technology pundit Kevin Kelly, confessing that “much of what I believed about human nature, and the nature of knowledge, has been upended by the Wikipedia.” But what did Kelly
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approach to studying technological change, and yet it has never really left the popular discourse about technology. It has recently made a forceful appearance in Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants, and Kelly’s thought is not a bad place to observe technological defeatism up close, if only because he is a
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, such fears had mostly receded into the background as the public learned to live with the new device. Here, the logic is straight out of Kevin Kelly: the public noticed the ordained trajectory of the camera technology and modified all of its assumptions accordingly. And if we did it with the camera
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refrain from using big words like “technology” and “the Internet.” Instead, we need to uncover and set aside whatever cultural, intellectual, and political biases—cue Kevin Kelly—they introduce into our debates. We’d be far better off examining individual technologies on their own terms, liberated from the macroscopic fetishes of Silicon
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. Such a movement—widely known as the Quantified Self—has in fact emerged over the last five years under the leadership of its two cofounders, Kevin Kelly—the same Kelly who wrote What Technology Wants—and Gary Wolf, a technology journalist, formerly of Wired. In 2010 Wolf penned something of a manifesto
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pops up without any meditation. For Wolf, this fixed, coherent, and transcendental self is very much like what technology is for his partner in crime, Kevin Kelly: our true self has a voice, and it’s trying to tell us a story; we just need to find the right set of apparatuses
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want privacy, you have to pay for it. It’s interesting to see what people choose to share publicly. Bathroom visits, sexual activity, drug use.” Kevin Kelly, the cofounder of the Quantified Self movement, is convinced that this is what technology has wanted all along. “Privacy is mostly an illusion, but you
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. Nietzsche’s conclusion about calculations and measurements was bitter but powerful: “An essentially mechanical world would be an essentially meaningless world.” Now, compare this with Kevin Kelly’s rhetorical attempt to exclude questions of meaning as something that the Quantified Self crowd ought even worry about: “[Our critics say that] only intangibles
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Kelvin, and the bad, backward guys who don’t. Which camp do you want to be in? In its simplicity, such rhetoric is similar to Kevin Kelly’s musings on technology: you can either be a technophile like him or you can be the Unabomber (Kelly dedicates a chapter of his book
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people to self-track just because “quantification” is cool or because a handful of Enlightenment thinkers said we should? It is like asking people—following Kevin Kelly’s lead—to always celebrate technology in the abstract, regardless of how destructive its individual applications, if only to defy the Unabomber. Instead, we need
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the utility providers as aggressively as were meters. But this day will soon arrive, even if the task of agitating for such devices falls to Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf. Based on the evidence we have so far, however, it’s not clear if such feedback devices merely lock users into their
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theories and absolute belief in the superiority of big data also form one foundation of solutionism; it’s not unique to self-trackers as such. Kevin Kelly, in his typical celebratory mode, tells us that “exhaustive data, the Google way of doing science, is better than having a hypothesis.” Harvard’s David
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let’s be honest: computers don’t, strictly speaking, “remember” information; rather, they “store” it. Bell is hardly alone in his confused beliefs about memory—Kevin Kelly, in a similar vein, argues that “when the camera is fully ubiquitous, everything is recorded for all time. We have a communal awareness and memory
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of secrecy and opacity. Some will foster collaboration; others will foster individuality and solitude. There’s no great logic to “the Internet”; contrary to what Kevin Kelly and others like him believe, “the Internet” tells us nothing. The important transformations that we are living through—self-tracking, lifelogging, nudges, gamification, and digital
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Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2009), 44. 30 “The bureaucracy of Wikipedia”: Kevin Kelly, “The Collaborative Community,” in What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today’s Leading Minds Rethink Everything, ed. John Brockman (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), 177
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Political Thought: Langdon Winner, Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978). 214 What Technology Wants: Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants, Kindle ed. (New York: Penguin Books, 2011). 214 cite Kelly’s What Technology Wants as an influence: for Wu, see his Amazon
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say, ‘I want the best music’”: ibid. 244 “An essentially mechanical world”: Vedia, Philosophical Writings: Friedrich Nietzsche, 158. 245 “[Our critics say that] only intangibles”: Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants (New York: Penguin Books, 2011), 100. 245 so astutely documented by historian Theodore Porter: Theodore M. Porter, Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit
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/2007/02/070218140157.htm. 265 “the more we look for patterns”: ibid. 265 “exhaustive data, the Google way of doing science”: quoted in Ethan Zuckmerman, “Kevin Kelly on Context for the Quantified Self,” My Heart’s in Accra, May 29, 2011, http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2011/05/29
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/kevin-kelly-on-context-for-the-quantified-self. 266 “a serious shift in our image”: David Weinberger, Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now that the Facts
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and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994), 38. 276 “when the camera is fully ubiquitous”: Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants (New York: Penguin Books, 2011), 299. 276 “Relieving one’s own life story”: Bell and Gimmel, Your Life, Uploaded. 276 “professing to
Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
by John Markoff · 22 Mar 2022 · 573pp · 142,376 words
throw the I Ching. Brockman couldn’t tell whether he was joking or not. In the morning Brand called back and said he would accept. * * * Kevin Kelly was a high schooler in a suburban town in New Jersey when his mother alerted him to the Whole Earth Catalog, having read a story
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that their publication would be folded into the CoEvolution Quarterly to create the newly combined publication that Art Kleiner had named the Whole Earth Review. Kevin Kelly, who was editing the Quarterly, was put in charge of editing the two publications together into a strange mixture that pleased neither audience. The coup
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, you communicate like an angel.”[23] Just a few years later he would realize how naive he had been. * * * Shortly after he arrived in Sausalito, Kevin Kelly read Steven Levy’s Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, a book that portrayed three generations of “white hat” computer hackers (the good guys) ranging
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the Smalltalk programming environment, which became the model for both the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. Kaehler had read Hackers, and when he heard that Kevin Kelly, Brand, and Phelan were planning a meeting of all the hackers, he called Kelly and asked if he could invite his own group of hacker
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backstory. He had actually laid out the idea in a talk he gave that summer at the Western Behavioral Sciences Institution, shortly after he and Kevin Kelly received a copy of the galleys to Levy’s book. At the end of July, one of his students said to Brand after his lecture
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letter from Andrea Sharp, who wrote to inform him about the precarious financial situation back home in Sausalito. As gently as possible, she noted that Kevin Kelly was working without a salary and the decision had been made to turn Brand’s paid sabbatical into unpaid leave. “I did want you to
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he called High Tide. Hidden behind a fence just across a courtyard from the Whole Earth offices, it remained a comfortable two-hundred-yard commute. Kevin Kelly was now running the Whole Earth Review, and the WELL was slowly gaining new users—it had passed six hundred during the summer—and Brand
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project, adding that even if it had been published, it would have had little impact. He added that he was handing his ideas off to Kevin Kelly, who would publish Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World in 1994—the same year that Brand would
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news article describing the “World Wide Web,”[12] but there was already a growing buzz about the potential impact of the internet. The previous year Kevin Kelly had worked hard to help the WELL connect to the network, both making it easier to send email globally and making it possible for WELL
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role, where he would have unfettered access to the researchers. Brand had recently published an interview with the feminist author Camille Paglia in Wired, and Kevin Kelly, who had become the first executive editor of the magazine that would soon become known as the voice of the dot-com era, assigned him
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creating an organization to build it remained his central focus. For this purpose, Brand gradually pulled together a band of fellow travelers including Doug Carlson, Kevin Kelly, Peter Schwartz, Paul Saffo, Brian Eno, Esther Dyson, and Mitchell Kapor, who had founded Lotus Development Corporation, a maker of spreadsheet software. Several years earlier
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own relationship with his family, but there was another concern as well. In November when he discussed the Clock Library during an impromptu session with Kevin Kelly at the Hackers Conference (still an annual event a decade after they’d founded it), the Long Clock idea proved to be a hard sell
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a place for that kind of intellectual disagreement with real money on the line and with the follow-through it takes to make it happen. Kevin Kelly, still executive editor at Wired, got the magazine involved in the idea. That in turn brought in the lawyers, who pointed out that if the
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her company, she departed and began working with the Long Now Foundation. There she cofounded and eventually became chief executive of the All Species project, Kevin Kelly’s idea to create a compendium of all the species on the planet and make them available in a public archive. They had estimated that
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rural retreat center and farm in the hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. To appease Phelan’s mother, a Catholic prayer was read during the ceremony. Kevin Kelly had the original idea of an event that would allow the characters in Steven Levy’s Hackers to meet one another. Brand and Phelan helped
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the forefront of a growing movement to think more deeply about the consequences of artificial intelligence. I embarked on this project at the suggestion of Kevin Kelly, who is both a longtime friend of Stewart Brand’s and a classic example of someone whose life was set in a completely new direction
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Prose in Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Publications,” PhD diss., University of California at Los Angeles, 2014, iii. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 8 Quoted in Kevin Kelly, Out of Control (New York: Perseus Books, 1994), 85. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 9 Russell Schweickart, “No Frames, No Boundaries,” in Earth’s Answer: Explorations
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30: Image courtesy SRI International, www.sri.com 31 and 32: © Photograph by Gigi Carroll Sims 33: © Matt Heron/Take Stock/Topfoto 34, 35, 36: Kevin Kelly 37: John Markoff Index The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of the book. Each link will take you to the
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice From the Best in the World
by Timothy Ferriss · 14 Jun 2017 · 579pp · 183,063 words
O’Reilly Tom Peters Bear Grylls Brené Brown Quotes I’m Pondering (Tim Ferriss: May 27–June 16, 2016) Leo Babauta Mike D Esther Dyson Kevin Kelly Ashton Kutcher Quotes I’m Pondering (Tim Ferriss: June 24–July 15, 2016) Brandon Stanton Jérôme Jarre Fedor Holz Eric Ripert Sharon Salzberg Quotes I
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thoughtfully. “I started my first business with $200. . . . I learned far more about business from that $200 than from a debt-inducing MBA.” Kevin Kelly TW: @kevin2kelly kk.org KEVIN KELLY is “senior maverick” at Wired magazine, which he co-founded in 1993. He also co-founded the All Species Foundation, a nonprofit aimed
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back a Rush 2112 of Proustian 16K memories, from the Trash-80 to cassette-loading games. Most influential books on me: Out of Control by Kevin Kelly. Introduction to the power of evolutionary algorithms and information networks inspired by biology. Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil. What Moore observed in the
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Caroline Paul—tim.blog/caroline Darren Aronofsky—tim.blog/darren Debbie Millman—tim.blog/debbie Eric Ripert—tim.blog/eric Esther Perel—tim.blog/esther Kevin Kelly—tim.blog/kevin Kyle Maynard—tim.blog/kyle Jerzy Gregorek—tim.blog/jerzy Jocko Willink—tim.blog/jocko Josh Waitzkin—tim.blog/josh Larry King
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; Josh Waitzkin, 196; Jason Fried, 203; Arianna Huffington, 212; Tim O’Reilly, 220; Tom Peters, 226; Bear Grylls, 230; Brené Brown, 232; Esther Dyson, 244; Kevin Kelly, 247; Ashton Kutcher, 251; Jérôme Jarre, 257; Fedor Holz, 265; Eric Ripert, 269; Sharon Salzberg, 273; Greg Norman, 284; Daniel Ek, 287; Strauss Zelnick, 289
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, 158; Turia Pitt, 168; Adam Robinson, 190; Josh Waitzkin, 196; Arianna Huffington, 213; Gary Vaynerchuk, 215; Tom Peters, 227; Brené Brown, 233; Leo Babauta, 236; Kevin Kelly, 248; Jérôme Jarre, 258; Fedor Holz, 266; Eric Ripert, 269; Liv Boeree, 301; Anníe Mist Þórisdóttir, 306; Mark Bell, 311; Ed Coan, 319; Ray Dalio
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-Levitt, 149; Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, 160; Esther Perel, 180; Adam Robinson, 188; Jason Fried, 207; Arianna Huffington, 212; Tom Peters, 227; Brené Brown, 233; Kevin Kelly, 249; Jérôme Jarre, 259; Fedor Holz, 266; Eric Ripert, 270; Greg Norman, 284; Strauss Zelnick, 291; Liv Boeree, 301; Mark Bell, 311; Ray Dalio, 322
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; Arianna Huffington, 213; Gary Vaynerchuk, 217; Tim O’Reilly, 222; Bear Grylls, 231; Brené Brown, 233; Leo Babauta, 237; Mike D, 241; Esther Dyson, 245; Kevin Kelly, 249; Ashton Kutcher, 252; Brandon Stanton, 255; Jérôme Jarre, 261; Fedor Holz, 267; Eric Ripert, 270; Franklin Leonard, 278; Greg Norman, 285; Daniel Ek, 287
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Miura-Ko, 202; Jason Fried, 208; Arianna Huffington, 213; Gary Vaynerchuk, 216; Tim O’Reilly, 223; Tom Peters, 227; Leo Babauta, 238; Esther Dyson, 245; Kevin Kelly, 249; Ashton Kutcher, 252; Jérôme Jarre, 261; Franklin Leonard, 279; Peter Guber, 282; Strauss Zelnick, 291; Tony Hawk, 299; Mark Bell, 312; Ray Dalio, 323
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Jonathan Sacks, 161; Julia Galef, 165; Annie Duke, 173; Josh Waitzkin, 198; Jason Fried, 209; Gary Vaynerchuk, 217; Tim O’Reilly, 222; Esther Dyson, 245; Kevin Kelly, 249; Jérôme Jarre, 263; Eric Ripert, 271; Sharon Salzberg, 274; Liv Boeree, 303; Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, 339; Gabor Maté, 344; Sam Harris, 367; John Arnold
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