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Kevin Kelly
American writer and technology theorist (b. 1952), founding editor of Wired, co-founder of the Long Now Foundation with Eno and Hillis, and the thinker who popularized Eno's scenius concept.
Kevin Kelly is the American writer, technology theorist, and cultural entrepreneur whose work connects the 1960s Whole Earth Catalog tradition to contemporary thinking about artificial intelligence, complexity, and long-term civilization. As founding editor of Wired magazine in 1993, he helped define the vocabulary through which the digital transformation would be understood. As co-founder of the Long Now Foundation with Brian Eno and Danny Hillis, he helped create the institutional framework for long-term thinking. And as a writer — across books including Out of Control (1994), What Technology Wants (2010), and The Inevitable (2016) — he has produced what is arguably the most influential body of work on the relationship between humans and the technologies they create. His popularization of Eno's scenius concept in a 2008 essay on The Technium made the term part of the contemporary cultural vocabulary.
In The You On AI Field Guide
Kelly's intellectual formation came through the Whole Earth Catalog and Stewart Brand's subsequent publications in the 1970s