Do any of you follow Kevin Kelly's amazing blog,
The Technium? If not, i highly recommend it to you all--some truly amazing insights to be gleaned, primarily around the interface of the LL and the LR quadrants (culture and technology, for those allergic to jargon.)
About Kevin Kelly:
Kevin Kelly (b.
1952) is the founding executive editor of
Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the
Whole Earth Catalog.
He has also been a writer, photographer and conservationist. Kelly is a
student of cultures (Asian ones in particular) and is considered by
some an expert in
digital culture.
Bio from Kevin's blog:
I am still writing my next book which is about what technology wants. I'm posting my thoughts in-progress on
The Technium, a semi-blog.
Most of what I write these days is born digital. In addition to the Technium I run or post to 9 other blogs. They are:
Cool Tools – One new tool recommendation per day
Current Trends – One new cultural and technological trend per day
Street Use – Visual glimpses of how people actually use technology
True Films – Rave reviews of great documentaries and non-fiction films
The Quantified Self – Self-monitoring methods for self-knowledge
Asia Grace – My on-going love affair with Asia
Geek Dad – Summaries of projects completed by nerdy dads
Long Views – Reports on efforts to encourage long-term thinking
Kevin Kelly – Personal doings that only my mom cares about
All these bits are consolidated into one uber-blog I call my Lifestream.
Anything that I write on any blog will be posted in this stream.
(Anything written by other authors on my blogs will not be posted
here.) This is an easy way to keep up with what I am working on,
thinking about, messing with.
My passion for documentaries goes beyond my True Films website.
I've seen thousands of non-fiction films in the last 5 years, and have
reviewed 200 of the very best ones available on DVD (at consumer
prices). I took these "must see" titles and created a book version
called True Films 3.0.
In an experiment in new media publishing I've released this book as a
free PDF, which I hope you will download and enjoy. You have the option
of seeing contextual ads alongside the book's pages if you have the
most recent version of Acrobat Reader.
The Long Now Foundation (I am a board member) hosts a public seminar each month feature a talk on long-term thinking.
Past speakers include Brian Eno, Paul Hawken, Jared Diamond, Danny
Hillis, among the better known, and many other equally talented
original thinkers. I co-host the evening with Stewart Brand. They
happen approximately every second Friday of the month at a venue in San
Francisco, often Fort Mason. If you are in the neighborhood, please
join us. The talks are free.
One of our Long Now projects is Long Bets,
a forum for making long-term bets about the future. The intent is to
foster accountability in our predictions; when you are wrong it should
hurt. Recently a few high-profile bets have been won and made.
Six years ago I began a non-profit foundation to help catalog all
the living species on Earth. Part of that project was to make a unique
web page for every one of the 1.8 million species Science knows about.
As we discover and name additional species of the 50-100 million others
probably living on this planet, we'll give them a page too. We raised
$1 million to start the All Species Inventory, but did not get very
far. The foundation is currently moribund, but thankfully others have
taken on the vision and are making it happen. Recently the MacArthur
and Sloan Foundations, together with the Smithsonian Institution, began
funding the Encyclopedia of Life
(EOL) -- a web page for every species. E.O. Wilson, who was on our
board and who has been talking about similar goals, is the visible
spokesperson for the EOL and articulates this essential vision very
well. It's a relief to have such capable professional biologists
working on this collective grand mission -- to discover, name and
describe all the life on Earth in the next 25 years.
I am still an incurable magazine junkie. I remain the Senior Maverick for Wired, a magazine I helped co-found a decade ago. My most recent published writings are listed here, in chronological order.
A couple of years ago I was granted my 15 seconds of second-hand Hollywood fame. This short edited video clip from The Matrix Revisited (the making of the Matrix) has Keanu Reeves recounting how each actor had to read my book Out of Control
(and 2 other books) before they could open the original script. There
is a series of interviews with me on the "The Roots of the Matrix: Hard
Science" disk in the 10-disk DVD Ultimate Matrix Collection series.
My further doings are outlined comprehensively in this narrative. My history is covered in this chronology. Details are summarized in this biography.
All my books and their translations can be found on this catalog. Official portraits of me are downloadable from here.
I work in a sunny studio in Pacifica, California, along the coast in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Corey W. deVos (dj rekluse)
Brand Manager, Integral Naked
Audio Manager, Integral Institute
Managing Editor, KenWilber.com
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