Year 2013
My central mission for this year is to distill the best of my Cool Tools blog into a huge paper book. The 1,500 best tool reviews garnered from the past 10 years of daily reviews will be curated into a massive 450-page, oversized, all-color catalog of possibilities. The final book will look very much like a color version of the Whole Earth Catalog, which it is descended from. This is a gigantic undertaking. I hope it will be complete in time to be available in stores by the fall. If you have a favorite tool you want me to include, email your rave about it.
Our successfully funded second book of the Silver Cord series is now underway. We have a fantastic team of artists and writers and are on schedule to issue the final graphic novel next year in July 2014.
My latest big-idea book, What Technology Wants (2010), continues to acquire reviews, comments, translations, and discussion. More about the book can be found here.
I don't Tweet much, or stay too current on Facebook, but I am very active on Google +. I try to post at least once a day. You can follow me here.
I am back on the speaking circuit. I refer all invitations to speak to the folks that represent me, Monitor Talent. They can help book me.
The Long Now Foundation (I am a board member) hosts a public seminar each month featuring a talk on long-term thinking. Past speakers include Brian Eno, Neal Stephenson, Jared Diamond, Craig Venter, among the better known, and many other lesser-known but equally talented original thinkers. I often fascilitate questions at the event. They happen approximately once a month at a venue in San Francisco. If you are in the neighborhood, please join us.
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.
I remain the Senior Maverick for Wired, a magazine I helped co-found a decade ago. (My use of that title predated the use by Republican unmavericks.) My most recent published writings are listed here, in chronological order.
My further doings are outlined comprehensively in this narrative. My brushes with Hollywood are covered here. My history is recounted 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. Thanks to Joshua Swanbeck for the doodle of me, above.
I work in a sunny studio in Pacifica, California, along the coast in the San Francisco Bay Area.
My handle on Twitter is kevin2kelly but I am not actively twittering right now. I may in the future.
On Facebook I am the laughing Kevin Kelly.
I can be contacted by emailing kk at kk dot org.