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Kevin Kelly

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Founding executive editor of Wired and earlier editor of the Whole Earth Review; writes on technology and its long-run direction.

Out of Control described decentralised and emergent systems - swarms, networks, co-evolution, systems that improve without a controller - in 1994, well before platform and marketplace businesses were built on those properties. The Inevitable names twelve ongoing technological shifts, including the move from ownership to access and from products to continuously updated services, which is the frame a large share of software and marketplace theses now assume.

5 books of their own · 21 books they recommend

Books they wrote 5

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  1. Out of ControlKevin Kelly, 1994
  2. The InevitableKevin Kelly, 2016
  3. What Technology WantsKevin Kelly, 2010
Out of Control
Out of Control
Kevin Kelly · 1994
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The Inevitable
The Inevitable
Kevin Kelly · 2016
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What Technology Wants
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly · 2010
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Cool Tools
Cool Tools
Kevin Kelly · 2013
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Excellent Advice for Living
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly · 2023
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Books they recommend 21

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Book recommendations listed on their Good Books profile 21

Fiction 5

The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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Shantaram
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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The Essential Rumi
The Essential Rumi
Jalal Al Din Rumi · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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Childhood's End
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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Productivity and Habits 3

So Good They Can't Ignore You
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport aggregator only
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It's All Too Much
It's All Too Much
Peter Walsh · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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The Adventures of Johnny Bunko
The Adventures of Johnny Bunko
Daniel Pink · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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Art and Design 2

How Buildings Learn
How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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Making Comics
Making Comics
Scott McCloud · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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Technology and Computing 2

What the Dormouse Said
What the Dormouse Said
John Markoff · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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Regional Advantage
Regional Advantage
AnnaLee Saxenian · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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Religion and Spirituality 2

The Qur'an
The Qur'an
Translated by M. A. Haleem · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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The Sound of the One Hand
The Sound of the One Hand
Yoel Hoffman · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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Business and Management 1

The Innovator's Dilemma
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen aggregator only
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Philosophy 1

Finite and Infinite Games
Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse aggregator only
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Mathematics and Statistics 1

Gödel, Escher, Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas R. Hofstadter aggregator only
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Biography and Memoir 1

Gandhi
Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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Sociology and Culture 1

Future Shock
Future Shock
Alvin Toffler · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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Politics and Government 1

Open Borders
Open Borders
Bryan Caplan · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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Economics 1

The Ultimate Resource
The Ultimate Resource
Julian L. Simon · not in an entry yet aggregator only
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Where they publish 1

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wiredtechnologysoftwareemergencenetworkstechnology-forecastingaccess-over-ownershipdecentralisationplatforms