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What AI-Generated Art Really Means for Human Creativity
Wired, November 17, 2022
(Archived PDF)
Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
Warp News, August 2, 2021
(Archived PDF)
Tim Ferriss asked me to rave about my favorite books. I chose four that changed my mind. I recorded it as a Ferriss podcast episode. The good stuff starts at 4:30:
Books I’ve Loved — Kevin Kelly (#432)
The Tim Ferriss Show, May 13, 2020
(Audio File)
AR Will Spark The Next Big Tech Platform—Call it Mirrorworld (Chinese translation)
Wired, March 2019
(Archived PDF)
The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s
Perceptive Travel, December 2018
(Archived PDF)
How the Internet Gave All of Us Superpowers
Wired, September 18, 2018
(Archived PDF)
What Mongolian nomads teach us about the digital future
Wired, October 21, 2017
(Archived PDF)
The Myth of a Superhuman AI,
Backchanel.com, April 25, 2017
(Archived PDF)
With AI, Answers Are Cheap, But Questions Are The Future
GE Reports, March 6, 2017
(Archived PDF)
The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World’s Most Secretive Startup
Wired, May 2016
(Archived PDF)
The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World
Wired, Business, October 27, 2014
(Archived PDF)
What Bit Wants
Medium, The Message, August 4, 2014
(Archived PDF)
You Are Not Late
Medium, The Message, July 26, 2014
(Archived PDF)
Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It
Wired, March 10, 2014
(Archived PDF)
SoMa Dreams
Wired, vol. 21, no. 5, May 2013
(Archived PDF)
Better Than Human
Wired, vol. 21, no.1, December 24, 2012
(Archived PDF)
We Are Stardust
Response to the 2012 Edge Question: What is Your Favorite Deep, Elegant, or Beautiful Explanation?,
Edge, January 2012
(Archived PDF)
The Virtues of Negative Results
Response to the 2011 Edge Question: What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody’s Cognitive Toolkit?
Edge, January 2011
(Archived PDF)
Evolving the Scientific Method
The Scientist, vol. 24, no. 12, December 2010
(Archived PDF)
How Money Follows Attention–Eventually
Technology Review, October 28, 2010
(Archived PDF)
Achieving Techno-Literacy
New York Times Magazine, September 16, 2010
(Archived PDF)
Reading in a Whole New Way
Smithsonian, August 2010
(Archived PDF)
Window on the World
13 of the Brightest Tech Minds Sound Off on the Rise of the Tablet
Wired, vol. 18, no. 4, March 22, 2010
(Archived PDF)
An Intermedia With 2 Billion Screens Peering Into It
Response to the 2010 Edge Question: How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think?
Edge, January 2010
(Archived PDF)
The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online
Wired, vol. 17, no. 6, May 22, 2009
(Archived PDF)
A New Kind of Mind
Response to the 2009 Edge Question: What Will Change Everything?
Edge, January 2009
(Archived PDF)
The Next One Thousand Years Of Christianity
Q monograph, 2008
(Archived PDF)
Becoming Screen Literate
New York Times Magazine, November 21, 2008
(Archived PDF)
Infoporn: Tap Into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer
Wired, vol. 16, no. 7, June 23, 2008
(Archived PDF)
What I Changed My Mind About
Response to the 2008 Edge Question: What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Why?
Edge, 232, January 4, 2008
(Archived PDF)
The Technium and the 7th Kingdom of Life
Edge, 217, July 19, 2007
(Archived PDF)
Why Do We Still Have Big Questions In “What We Don’t Know”
Wired, vol. 15, no. 2, February 2007
(Archived PDF)
That We Will Embrace the Reality of Progress
Response to the 2007 Edge Question: What Are You Optimistic About?
Edge, 200, January 8, 2007
(Archived PDF)
More Anonymity Is [Not] Good
From The 2006 Edge Question: What Is Your Dangerous Idea?
Edge, 196, November 10, 2006
(Archived PDF)
Scan This Book!
(What will happen to books? Reader, take heart! Publisher, be very, very afraid. Internet search engines will set them free. A manifesto.)
New York Times Magazine, May 14, 2006
(Archived PDF)
What Technology Wants
Appeared in the 75 Anniversary Issue of The Hollywood Reporter on “The Future of Entertainment.” Fall 2005.
(Archived PDF)
Unto us the Machine is born
Partial excerpt of “We Are the Web”, (pertaining to a global brain) in the Sydney Morning Herald, November 15, 2005
(Archived PDF)
We Are the Web,
Wired, vol. 13, no. 8, August 2005
(Archived PDF)
Audio file – low res (mp3, 20.5mb)
Audio file – high res (mp3, 41.1mb)
Artifact Networks
Appeared in Cool Tools, 2003, by Kevin Kelly
(Archived PDF)
God Is the Machine
Wired, vol. 10, no. 12, December 2002
(Archived PDF)
Making My Own Music
(An op-ed piece on the copyright extension law)
Appeared in The New York Times, Saturday, October 12, 2002, Op-Ed
(Archived PDF)
A Brief History of Betting on the Future
Wired, vol. 10, no. 5, May 2002
(Archived PDF)
Where Music Will Be Coming From
Appeared in New York Times Magazine, March 17, 2002
(Archived PDF)
The Web Runs on Love, Not Greed
Appeared in The Wall Street Journal, January 3, 2002
(Archived PDF)
Lessons for The All Species Project from the Human Genome Project [via Internet Archive]
October 2001
(Archived PDF)
Will We Still Turn Pages?
Time, vol. 155, no. 25, 2000, p. 90
(Archived PDF)
Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100?
Seminar, April 2000, Stanford University
(Archived Transcript)
All Species Inventory
Whole Earth, no. 102, pp. 4, 2000
(Archived PDF)
Really Useful Websites
Whole Earth, Winter 2000
(Archived PDF)
True Films
Whole Earth, Winter 2000, p.58
(Archived PDF)
Tools Are the Revolution
Whole Earth, 2000, no. 103, p. 4
(Archived PDF)
The Rosetta Disk
Whole Earth, Winter, 2000, no. 103, pp. 10
(Archived PDF)
Nerd Theology
Technology in Society, 21, 1999, pp. 387-392
(Archived PDF)
The Art of Burning Man
Whole Earth, no. 99, Winter 1999, p. 28
(Archived PDF)
Pro-Choice: The Promise of Technology
Organization & environment, vol. 12, no. 4, 1999, p. 428
(Archived PDF)
Roaring Zeros
Wired, vol. 7, no. 9, September, 1999
(Archived PDF)
The Computational Metaphor
Whole Earth, Winter, 1998, p. 5
(Archived PDF)
One Huge Computer, with S. Reiss
Wired, vol. 6, no. 8, August 1998, p. 128
(Archived PDF)
The Third Culture
Science, vol. 279, no. 5353, February 13, 1998, pp. 992-993
(Archived PDF)
PUSH!, with Gary Wolf
Wired, vol. 5, no. 3, March 1997
(Archived PDF)
Bonfire of the Techies,
Appeared in Time Magazine, August 25, 1997
(Magazine scan), (Archived PDF)
New Rules for the New Economy
Wired, vol. 5, no. 9, September 1997
(Archived PDF)
What are We Doing Online?: a debate on the social consequences of online communications; including excerpts from online chat sessions about Internet addiction, with John Perry Barlow, Sven Birkerts, Mark Slouka
Harper’s Magazine, vol. 291, no. 1743, August 1995, pp. 35-47
(Archived PDF)
The Electronic Hive: Two Views, with Sven Birkerts
Harper’s Magazine, vol. 288, no. 1728, May 1994, pp. 17-24
(Archived PDF)
The Electric Paperless Prototype
Wired, vol. 2, no. 6, June 1994, p. 44, June
(Archived PDF)
Cracking Wall Street
Wired, vol. 2, no. 7, July 1994, p. 92
(Archived PDF)
Two Dollars Per Hour
Wired, vol. 2, no. 10, October 1994
(Archived PDF)
The Dragon Ate My Homework, with Howard Rheingold
Wired, vol.1, no. 3, 1993, p. 68
(Archived PDF)
Unthinkable Futures, with Brian Eno
Whole Earth Review, no. 79, Summer 1993, pp. 4-9
(Archived PDF)
Cypherpunks, e-Money and the Technologies of Disconnection
Whole Earth Review, Summer 1993, no. 79, pp. 40(20)
(Archived PDF)
Apocalypse Juggernaut, Goodbye
Whole Earth Review, vol. 65, no. 46, 1990, p. 38
(Archived PDF)
Perpetual Novelty: Selected Notes from the Second Artificial Life Conference
Whole Earth Review, no. 67, Summer 1990, pp. 20-30
(Archived PDF)
Selling the World: Mouseketeers to Marketeers
Whole Earth Review, vol. 65, no. 46, 1990, p. 36
(Archived PDF)
Sticking Your Head In Cyberspace
Whole Earth Review , no. 63, Summer 1989, pp. 84-88
(Archived PDF)
Toward Artificial Life, with Chris Langton
Whole Earth Review , no. 58, Spring 1988, pp. 74-80
(Archived PDF)
Information Takeover,
Whole Earth Review: Signal, no. 57, Winter 1987, p. 2
(Archived PDF)
The Bulletin Board Proletariat
Whole Earth Review: Signal, no. 57, Winter 1987, p. 77
(Archived PDF)
How To Ride A Bicycle Across A Continent
Whole Earth Review, Spring 1987, pp. 128-137
(Archived PDF)
The Consequences Of Treating A Fetus As A Human Being
Whole Earth Review, Summer 1986, pp. 64-71
(Archived PDF)
Digital Retouching; The End of Photography as Evidence of Anything, with Stewart Brand and Jay Kinney
Whole Earth Review, July 1985, pp. 42-50
(Archived PDF)
The Birth of a Network Nation
New Age Journal, October 1984, p. 42
(Archived PDF)
Information as a Communicable Disease
CoEvolution Quarterly, Summer, 1984, pp. 98-103
(Archived PDF)
Low-Rent Himalayas
CoEvolution Quarterly, Fall 1981, pp. 109-115
(Archived PDF)
Articles available in print
L’Anima delle Invenzioni (Italian, PDF)
la Repubblica, February 24, 2011
The Biology Of Business
Executive Excellence, Provo, Feb 2000
Stripping off the silicon
Management Today, 08/01/1999
MIND & MATTER The dissolving line between genes and machines
The Globe and Mail, 06/24/1995
The future is organic
The Guardian, 06/18/1995
Using The Gene In The Machine
The Age, 05/23/1995
Envisioning the Impossible
Wired, 1995, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 94