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Archive for January 14th, 2009

KEVIN KELLY’S BIOGRAPHY

  • images1Kevin Kelly was borned in Pennsylvania in 1952. He lives at the moment in California, is married and has three children. He graduated from Westfiel High School, in Westfield, in New Jersey. He went to university in Rhode Island but he left it the first year. He is now an editor and his writings have appeared in magazines and newspapers like The New York Times, Esquire, The Echonomist… He is the founding executive of WIRED magazine.

[-WIRED MAGAZINE: Is an American magazine founded by a man called Louis Rossetto and his partner Jane Matcalfe in the year 1993. This magazine is also published on the Internet. Ir is published in San Francisco and California. In the year 1994 it won the National Magazine Award.]

Kevin Kelly is also the former editor and publisher of WHOLE EARTH CATALOGUE.

[-WHOLE EARTH CATALOGUE: it is a cultural magazine published by Stewart Brand between the years 1968 and 1972. It is divided into 7 sections:

  • Understanding whole system
  • Shelter and land use
  • Industry and Craft
  • Communications
  • Community
  • Nomadics
  • Learning

We could also find inside information tools, for example books, maps, proffesional journal… There are also special-purpose utensiles such as garden tools, carpenter’s tools, tents…]

Kevin Kelly’s most important book: Out of control: The new Biology of Machines, Social Systems and Economic World, published in the year 1994. 

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