Kevin Kelly, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1952, is an American writer whose writings have been published in several well – known newspapers of the USA: The New York Times, The Economist, Enquire… He is in addition executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog.
Apart from been a writer, he is also a photographer and conservationist.
Kevin Kelly has published lots of books, such as Cool Tools (2003), Bad Dreams (2003), True Films (2006)… But the most important and notable book written by Kevin is Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World, which was published in 19994.
As he tells us in his speech, which is available in YouTube, it was impossible to think few years ago that the Internet could reach the succeed that has achieved nowadays. According to Kevin, we could explain the Internet saying that we should “get better in believing in the impossible”. We have the example of “Wikipedia”, which we could say it’s an obvious of all the examples we can find of the power of the Internet. “Wikipedia” consists of a collection of all the varieties of articles about anything writen by people all over the world.
As a conclusion, and as Kelly mentions in one of his articles, “no one can escape the transforming fire of machines”.
Bibliography:
Kevin Kelly (editor). (2008, October 9). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11:18, November 14, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Kelly_(editor)&oldid=244052430
Kevin Kelly’s personal web. Retrieved 12: 15, November 13, 2008, from http://www.kk.org/
