Editor and futurist · Wired, Whole Earth Review
Books recommended by Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly is co-founder and former executive editor of Wired magazine, one of the most influential publications on technology and digital culture. Before that, he was editor of the Whole Earth Review, a publication that pioneered the intersection of technology, ecology and counterculture. He is also the author of books such as What Technology Wants and The Inevitable, in which he investigates the forces shaping technological development.
His reading recommendations reflect a broad and unconventional curiosity: spanning biology, philosophy, science fiction, history of science and design, always with the outlook of someone seeking deep patterns in the world. For Kelly, reading is part of an ongoing intellectual project to understand where civilization is heading.
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Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts · 2003
”You get an incredibly vivid, immersive, deep and in some ways inspiring view of India and the Indian underworld, of that part of Asia.”
Peopleware
Tom DeMarco · 1987
”A hugely underappreciated book. I remember all kinds of things from it.”
future shock
Alvin Toffler · 1970
”He was the one who introduced the term ‘future shock’ which was that people would actually have like a resistance or a reaction to the future, in general, just because things were changing fast.”
It's All Too Much
Peter Walsh · 2007
”I actually gave it a whole page because I thought the message was so profound.”
Regional Advantage
AnnaLee Saxenian · 1994
”There was actually a really good book on this by AnnaLee Saxenian, I believe her name was.”
Adventures of Johnny Bunko
Daniel Pink · 2008
”It's a comic book, basically, and it's aimed at young people as a way of teaching them how to become indispensable.”