Episode 376: Kevin Kelly

Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 8:08 p.m.

b"Kevin Kelly is a writer and a founding executive editor of Wired Magazine. He is the author of What Technology Wants, Out of Control and The Inevitable: Understanding the Twelve Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future.\\n\\n\\u201cI always try to write about the future\\u2014and it became harder and harder because things would catch up so fast. If you read Out of Control now, I\\u2019ve heard that people say, \\u2018well, this is obvious.\\u2019 I have to tell you, it was dismissed as entirely pie-in-the-sky, wild-eyed craziness twenty-five years ago.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nkk.org\\n\\n\\n@kevin2kelly\\n\\n\\n[08:54] CoEvolution Quarterly\\n\\n\\n[09:06] \\u201cLow-Rent Himalayas\\u201d (CoEvolution Quarterly \\u2022 1981) [pdf]\\n\\n\\n[18:06] \\u201cInformation as a Communicable Disease\\u201d (CoEvolution Quarterly \\u2022 1984) [pdf]\\n\\n\\n[22:30] sci-hub.tw\\n\\n\\n[28:28] Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities (Cool Tools Lab \\u2022 2013)\\n\\n\\n[31:31] Whole Earth Software Catalog and Review\\n\\n\\n[48:08] Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (Basic Books \\u2022 1995)\\n\\n\\n[48:19] \\u201cNew Rules for the New Economy: Twelve Dependable Principles for Thriving in a Turbulent World\\u201d (Wired \\u2022 1997)\\n\\n\\n[48:23] New Rules for the New Economy: Ten Radical Strategies for a Connected World (Penguin \\u2022 1999)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"