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Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly is an American writer, futurist, and founding executive editor of Wired who explores technology, digital culture, and long-term social change. He is known for Out of Control, What Technology Wants, and The Inevitable; his essay “1,000 True Fans” has been especially influential among creators and entrepreneurs.

Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore

Kevin Kelly was born in Pennsylvania in 1952 and graduated from Westfield High School in New Jersey in 1970. He attended the University of Rhode Island for a year, then left without earning a degree, a choice he later described as one of the best decisions of his life because it sent him toward the education he wanted: travel, fieldwork, and self-direction. Through the 1970s he moved through Asia as a low-budget photographer, worked briefly in Tehran, crossed the United States by bicycle, and underwent a religious conversion experience in Jerusalem. Those years established the pattern that would define his career: learning by immersion, moving easily between technology, culture, nature, and belief. ((https://kk.org/biography))

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Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points
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The best way to criticize something is to make something better
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The internet is still at the beginning of its beginning
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My answer is you offer something better than free
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When buoyed by scenius, you act like genius
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The desire to hear a well-told story will never leave us
-What Technology Wants
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Every other possible mind is alien
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"Kevin Kelly packages ideas — both other people's and his own"

TED

"Kevin Kelly has always been light years ahead in reporting on technological trends"

Kirkus Reviews

"Kevin Kelly has been thinking about the future in an outside-the-box way his whole career"

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"Kevin Kelly is one of the most original thinkers I have ever met"

Big Think

"Kevin Kelly is one of America's most influential tech writers"

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"Kevin Kelly calls himself a "radical optimist," a rare profession these days"

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