Year 2011

My new book What Technology Wants, was published by Viking/Penguin in October 2010. Reviews, comments and discussion of the book can be found here. While working on the book I posted my thoughts in-progress and in-depth on The Technium, which is temporarily quiet.

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. A rough calendar of my available days can be viewed here. This year I am dedicating to exploring e-books. I hope to issue an e-book version of all my earlier books and a few new books as well.

What blogging I do these days is consolidated into one uber-blog I call my Lifestream. This is an easy way to keep up with what I am working on, thinking about, conjuring with.

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, Neal Stephenson, Jared Diamond, Craig Venter, among the better known, and many other equally talented original thinkers. I co-host the evening with Stewart Brand. They happen approximately once a 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.

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.