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Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
Warp News, August 2, 2021
Books Read By, April 1, 2020
Tim Ferriss asked me to rave about my favorite books. I chose four that changed my mind. I recorded it as a Ferriss podcast episode. The good stuff starts at 4:30:
Books I’ve Loved — Kevin Kelly (#432)
The Tim Ferriss Show, May 13, 2020
AR Will Spark The Next Big Tech Platform—Call it Mirrorworld (Chinese translation)
Wired, March 2019
The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s
Perceptive Travel, December 2018
What Mongolian nomads teach us about the digital future
Wired, October 21, 2017
The Myth of a Superhuman AI, (Archived PDF)
Backchanel.com, April 25, 2017
With AI, Answers Are Cheap, But Questions Are The Future, (Archived PDF)
GE Reports, March 6, 2017
The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World’s Most Secretive Startup, (Archived PDF)
Wired, May 2016
The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World, (Archived PDF)
Wired, Business, October 27, 2014
What Bit Wants, (Archived PDF)
Medium, The Message, August 4, 2014
You Are Not Late, (Archived PDF)
Medium, The Message, July 26, 2014
Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It, (Archived PDF)
Wired, March 10, 2014
Dreams, (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol. 21, no. 5, May 2013
Better Than Human, (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol. 21, no.1, December 24, 2012
We Are Stardust
Response to the 2012 Edge Question: What is Your Favorite Deep, Elegant, or Beautiful Explanation?, (Archived PDF)
Edge, January 2012
The Virtues of Negative Results
Response to the 2011 Edge Question: What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody’s Cognitive Toolkit?, (Archived PDF)
Edge, January 2011
Evolving the Scientific Method, (Archived PDF)
The Scientist, vol. 24, no. 12, December 2010
How Money Follows Attention–Eventually, (Archived PDF)
Technology Review, October 28, 2010
Achieving Techno-Literacy, (Archived PDF)
New York Times Magazine, September 16, 2010
Reading in a Whole New Way, (Archived PDF)
Smithsonian, August 2010
Window on the World,
13 of the Brightest Tech Minds Sound Off on the Rise of the Tablet (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol. 18, no. 4, March 22, 2010
An Intermedia With 2 Billion Screens Peering Into It
Response to the 2010 Edge Question: How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think?, (Archived PDF)
Edge, January 2010
The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online, (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol. 17, no. 6, May 22, 2009
A New Kind of Mind
Response to the 2009 Edge Question: What Will Change Everything?, (Archived PDF)
Edge, January 2009
The Next One Thousand Years Of Christianity
Q monograph, 2008
Becoming Screen Literate , (Archived PDF)
New York Times Magazine, November 21, 2008
Infoporn: Tap Into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer, (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol. 16, no. 7, June 23, 2008
What I Changed My Mind About
Response to the 2008 Edge Question: What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Why?, (Archived PDF)
Edge, 232, January 4, 2008
The Technium and the 7th Kingdom of Life, (Archived PDF)
Edge, 217, July 19, 2007
Why Do We Still Have Big Questions In “What We Don’t Know”, (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol. 15, no. 2, February 2007
That We Will Embrace the Reality of Progress
Response to the 2007 Edge Question: What Are You Optimistic About?, (Archived PDF)
Edge, 200, January 8, 2007
More Anonymity Is [Not] Good
From The 2006 Edge Question: What Is Your Dangerous Idea?, (Archived PDF)
Edge, 196, November 10, 2006
Scan This Book!
(What will happen to books? Reader, take heart! Publisher, be very, very afraid. Internet search engines will set them free. A manifesto.), (Archived PDF)
New York Times Magazine, May 14, 2006
What Technology Wants
Appeared in the 75 Anniversary Issue of The Hollywood Reporter on “The Future of Entertainment.” Fall 2005.
Unto us the Machine is born, (Archived PDF)
Partial excerpt of “We Are the Web”, (pertaining to a global brain) in the Sydney Morning Herald, November 15, 2005
We Are the Web, (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol. 13, no. 8, August 2005
Audio file – low res (mp3, 20.5mb)
Audio file – high res (mp3, 41.1mb)
Artifact Networks
Appeared in Cool Tools, 2003, by Kevin Kelly
God Is the Machine, (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol. 10, no. 12, December 2002
Making My Own Music
(An op-ed piece on the copyright extension law), (Archived PDF)
Appeared in The New York Times, Saturday, October 12, 2002, Op-Ed
A Brief History of Betting on the Future, (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol. 10, no. 5, May 2002
Where Music Will Be Coming From, (Archived PDF)
Appeared in New York Times Magazine, March 17, 2002
The Web Runs on Love, Not Greed, (Archived PDF)
Appeared in The Wall Street Journal, January 3, 2002
Lessons for The All Species Project from the Human Genome Project [via Internet Archive], (Archived PDF)
October 2001
Will We Still Turn Pages?
Time, vol. 155, no. 25, 2000, p. 90
Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100?, (Archived Transcript)
Seminar, April 2000, Stanford University
All Species Inventory, (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth, no. 102, pp. 4, 2000
Really Useful Websites, (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth, Winter 2000
True Films, (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth, Winter 2000, p.58
Tools Are the Revolution, (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth, 2000, no. 103, p. 4
The Rosetta Disk
Whole Earth, Winter, 2000, no. 103, pp. 10
Nerd Theology, (Archived PDF)
Technology in Society, 21, 1999, pp. 387-392
The Art of Burning Man
Whole Earth, no. 99, Winter 1999, p. 28
Pro-Choice: The Promise of Technology, (Archived PDF)
Organization & environment, vol. 12, no. 4, 1999, p. 428
Roaring Zeros, (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol. 7, no. 9, September, 1999
The Computational Metaphor, (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth, Winter, 1998, p. 5
One Huge Computer, with S. Reiss, (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol. 6, no. 8, August 1998, p. 128
The Third Culture, (Archived PDF)
Science, vol. 279, no. 5353, February 13, 1998, pp. 992-993
PUSH!, with Gary Wolf, (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol. 5, no. 3, March 1997
Bonfire of the Techies, (Archived PDF), (Magazine scan)
Appeared in Time Magazine, August 25, 1997
New Rules for the New Economy, (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol. 5, no. 9, September 1997
What are We Doing Online?: a debate on the social consequences of online communications; including excerpts from online chat sessions about Internet addiction, with John Perry Barlow, Sven Birkerts, Mark Slouka, (Archived PDF)
Harper’s Magazine, vol. 291, no. 1743, August 1995, pp. 35-47
The Electronic Hive: Two Views, with Sven Birkerts, (Archived PDF)
Harper’s Magazine, vol. 288, no. 1728, May 1994, pp. 17-24
The Electric Paperless Prototype, (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol. 2, no. 6, June 1994, p. 44, June
Cracking Wall Street, (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol. 2, no. 7, July 1994, p. 92
Two Dollars Per Hour, (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol. 2, no. 10, October 1994
The Dragon Ate My Homework, with Howard Rheingold, (Archived PDF)
Wired, vol.1, no. 3, 1993, p. 68
Unthinkable Futures, with Brian Eno, (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth Review, no. 79, Summer 1993, pp. 4-9
Apocalypse Juggernaut, Goodbye, (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth Review, vol. 65, no. 46, 1990, p. 38
Perpetual Novelty: Selected Notes from the Second Artificial Life Conference, (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth Review, no. 67, Summer 1990, pp. 20-30
Selling the World: Mouseketeers to Marketeers, (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth Review, vol. 65, no. 46, 1990, p. 36
Sticking Your Head In Cyberspace, (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth Review , no. 63, Summer 1989, pp. 84-88
Toward Artificial Life, with Chris Langton, (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth Review , no. 58, Spring 1988, pp. 74-80
Information Takeover, (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth Review: Signal, no. 57, Winter 1987, p. 2
The Bulletin Board Proletariat, (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth Review: Signal, no. 57, Winter 1987, p. 77
How To Ride A Bicycle Across A Continent, (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth Review, Spring 1987, pp. 128-137
The Consequences Of Treating A Fetus As A Human Being, (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth Review, Summer 1986, pp. 64-71
Digital Retouching; The End of Photography as Evidence of Anything, with Stewart Brand and Jay Kinney, (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth Review, July 1985, pp. 42-50
The Birth of a Network Nation, (Archived PDF)
New Age Journal, October 1984, p. 42
Information as a Communicable Disease, (Archived PDF)
CoEvolution Quarterly, Summer, 1984, pp. 98-103
Low-Rent Himalayas, (Archived PDF)
CoEvolution Quarterly, Fall 1981, pp. 109-115
L’Anima delle Invenzioni (Italian, PDF)
la Repubblica, February 24, 2011
The Biology Of Business
Executive Excellence, Provo, Feb 2000
Stripping off the silicon
Management Today, 08/01/1999
MIND & MATTER The dissolving line between genes and machines
The Globe and Mail, 06/24/1995
The future is organic
The Guardian, 06/18/1995
Using The Gene In The Machine
The Age, 05/23/1995
Envisioning the Impossible
Wired, 1995, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 94
Cypherpunks, e-Money and the Technologies of Disconnection
Whole Earth Review, Summer 1993, no. 79, pp. 40(20)
Digital Natives: A conversation between virtual reality visionaries Jaron Lanier and Kevin Kelly, (Archived PDF)
The Verge, Aug. 2014
Q&A: Hacker Historian George Dyson Sits Down With Wired’s Kevin Kelly
Wired, February 17, 2012
Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 2010, vol. 18, no. 8
Hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage Talk ‘MythBusters’
Commonwealth Club, Palo Alto, March 13, 2010
Seth Lloyd: Life, the Universe, and Everything, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 2006, vol. 14, no. 3
Prophets of Boom, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1999, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 156
Martha Stewart: I Do Have a Brain, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1998, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 114
Paul Krugman: New Economy? What New Economy?, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1998, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 146
Peter Drucker: Wealth Is Overrated, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1998, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 160
Tom Peters: Peters Provocations, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1997, vol. 5, no. 12, pp. 204
Judith Martin: Manners Matter, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1997, vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 224
John Hagel: It Takes a Village to Make a Mall, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1997, vol. 5, no. 8, pp. 84
George Lucas: Beyond Star Wars, with Paula Parisi, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1997, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 160
Hazel Henderson: Win-Win World, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1997, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 152
Michael Cox: Wealth If You Want It, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1996, vol. 4, no. 11, pp. 192
Watts Wacker: Yoda Is My Hero, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1996, vol. 4, no. 9, pp. 168
Alvin Toffler: Anticipatory Democracy, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1996, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 45
Douglas Hofstadter: By Analogy, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1995, vol. 3, no. 11, pp. 110
Vernor Vinge: Singular Visionary, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1995, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 160
Brian Eno:Gossip is Philosophy, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1995, vol. 3, no. 5
John Naisbitt: Mr. Big Trend, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1994, vol. 2, no. 10, pp. 114
Will Wright: The Mayor of Sim City, (Archived PDF)
Wired, 1994, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 100
Jaron Lanier, Beyond Science Fiction: The “Real” Worlds of Virtual Space
High performance, 1990, vol. 12, no. 4n48, pp. 34
Virtual Reality; an Interview with Jaron Lanier, (Archived PDF, missing pages 111 & 112)
Kevin Kelly, Adam Heilbrun, Barbara Stacks
Whole Earth Review Fall 1989, no. 64, pp. 108(12)
Why Cults Flourish: Interview of Gordon Melton, with Jay Kinney (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth Review, Spr 1987, pp. 48(7)
“Why We Left The Farm: an interview with eight long-time members of the Farm who left the renowned granddaddy of New Age communes” (Archived PDF)
Whole Earth Review, Wint 1985, pp. 56(11)