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Kevin
Kelly
helped
launch Wired magazine in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until January
1999. He is currently Editor-At-Large. From 1984-1990, he was publisher and
editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news.
He was a founding board member of the WELL, a Sausalito-based teleconferencing
system. The WELL is considered by the growing Internet population to be a
model of online culture, and a pioneer in developing online communities. Kelly
was also co-founder of the annual Hackers' Conference, a weekend rendezvous
which in 1984 brought together three generations of legendary computer programmers
for the first time. He is the author of Out of Control: The New Biology
of Machines, Economic and Social Systems. His most recent book is New
Rules for the New Economy, a bestseller. His writing has appeared in many
national and international publications such as the New York Times, The Economist,
Time, Harpers, Science, GQ, and Esquire. His photographs have appeared in
LIFE and other national magazines. Before taking up the consequences of technology,
Kelly was a nomadic photojournalist. For most of the 1970s he was a photographer
in remote parts of Asia, publishing his photographs in national magazines.
(The result of those travels is his new book Asia Grace.) He wrote
a monthly travel column for New Age Journal. In the early 1980s he published
and edited the first magazine devoted to walking, and ran a mail order catalog
specializing in budget travel around the world. Kelly lives in Pacifica, California,
a small coastal town just south of San Francisco.