Kevin Kelly

The Directors of the film The Matrix, required the principal actors of the film to read three books prior to the start of filming. One of these were Kevin Kelly's 1995 book  Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World.

Kevin Kelly is the digital visionary who has been publisher of the Whole Earth Review, exec editor at WIRED, founder of visionary nonprofits, and writer on biology and business and "cool tools."

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. In 1994 and 1997, during Kelly's tenure, Wired won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence (the industry's equivalent of two Oscars). 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. Kevin Kelly's writing has appeared in many national and international publications such as the New York Times, The Economist, Time, Harpers, Science, GQ, Wall Street Journal and Esquire. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets half a million unique visitors per month.

In articles for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, among others, he has celebrated scientific breakthroughs, and at the Long Now Foundation, where he serves on the board, he champions projects that look 10,000 years into the future.

Kelly's newest book What Technology Wants asks what appears to be his life's core question: "How should I think about new technology when it comes along?"