Pop!Tech 2006: Dangerous Ideas

Kevin Kelly 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. Kevin is an expert in digital culture, and is said to have helped make technology part of popular culture. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, The Economist and other well-established periodicals.

Kevin is now editor at large for Wired. With Whole Earth’s founder, Stewart Brand, Kevin helped found the WELL, a highly regarded online community.

His current passion is a campaign to make a full inventory of all living species on earth. This project, called the All Species Inventory (www.all-species. org), received its first million dollars in funding and is currently endorsed by most taxonomic groups as an idea whose time has come.

Kevin lives in Pacifica, California, a small coastal town just south of San Francisco. He was born in 1952. He has no college or university degrees.

www.kk.org