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Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor from its inception until 1999. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets half a million unique visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly 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 authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control." ...more

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	The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future 3.90 avg rating — 11,663 ratings — published 2016 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Technology Wants 3.73 avg rating — 7,137 ratings — published 2010 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier 4.23 avg rating — 3,677 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World 4.22 avg rating — 1,662 ratings — published 1992 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities 4.40 avg rating — 964 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World 3.96 avg rating — 443 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The travel diaries of John Dot: Margate (Mid Life Backpacker Book 1) 3.19 avg rating — 113 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silver Cord (Volume 1 & 2) by Kevin Kelly (Goodreads Author), Steve Masseroni, Kiel Murray 3.89 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Recomendo: 500 brief reviews of cool stuff by Kevin Kelly (Goodreads Author), Mark Frauenfelder (Goodreads Author), Claudia Dawson 4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Four Favorite Tools: Fantastic tools selected by 150 notable creators by Kevin Kelly (Goodreads Author), Claudia Dawson (Editor), Mark Frauenfelder (Goodreads Author) (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.”
― Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

tags: humanity, technology

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“...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.”
― Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

tags: ideas, thinking

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“Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:
Increasing efficiency
Increasing opportunity
Increasing emergence
Increasing complexity
Increasing diversity
Increasing specialization
Increasing ubiquity
Increasing freedom
Increasing mutualism
Increasing beauty
Increasing sentience
Increasing structure
Increasing evolvability”
― Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

tags: future, technology

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