Kevin kelly and his trilogy of science and technology.

Kevin kelly, affectionately known as KK, is the founding editor of Wired magazine. Before Wired was founded, he was the editor and publisher of Jobs' favorite magazine Global Catalog. Kevin kelly is regarded as the spokesman and observer of "network culture", and some people call him "maverick".

Kevin kelly was born in Pennsylvania, USA 1952. 197 1 After studying at the University of Rhode Island for one year, I dropped out of school to become a freelance photographer.

Between the ages of 20 and 27, kevin kelly traveled in Asia, covering Japan, South Korea, Taiwan Province Province, China, the Philippines, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan and Iran.

At the age of 27, kevin kelly experienced a magical experience. He felt that his life span was only six months, so he devoted himself to his parents, visited relatives and friends, and then "died" on Halloween night. The man who experienced a "death" in spirit, after returning to the United States, rode a bicycle across the United States for 5,000 miles to experience the glory of life.

In the next 30 years, he embraced this rapidly developing, dazzling and increasingly technical world in his own way, and with his unique vision and wisdom, he explored the voice of life hidden behind the powerful technical force at the end of his brilliant thoughts and at the frontier of inaccessible places.

198 1 year, kevin kelly founded his own magazine "Walking Diary". He used to be an editor and an important contributor of Global Review, Signal and Global Survey, and his articles were widely praised by the Economist, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Science Magazine and other heavyweight media. WELL (Global Electronic Link) co-founded by him is still one of the most popular and intelligent communities.

1999, kevin kelly's Out of Control was designated as one of the three must-read books for all cast members when the famous director Wachowski filmed the blockbuster The Matrix.

He is a walker of ideas.

out of control

Out of control: the new biology of machines, social systems and the economic world.

Out of control written in 1994. Its Chinese version is published by Xinxing Publishing House 20 10 1 1.

This book describes his roaming at the forefront of science, technology, society and economy at that time, and the future prospect he got from it.

The emerging or popular concepts mentioned in the book include: popular wisdom, cloud computing, Internet of Things, virtual reality, agile development, collaboration, win-win, * * birth, * * co-evolution, network community, network economy and so on.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is a "prophetic" book. There must be hidden "predictions" about the future that we haven't confirmed or peeped at.

What does technology want?

2010/0 June 14, kevin kelly's third work, What Science and Technology Want, was published by Viking Adult Publishing House. 20 1 1 0 1 CITIC Publishing House published in China.

Kevin kelly introduced a brand-new view of science and technology to us in what science and technology want. He believes that as a whole, science and technology is not a mess composed of wires and metals, but a natural system with vitality, and its origin can be traced back to the initial period of life. Just as biological evolution shows an unconscious trend, so does technology. By tracking these long-term trends, we can understand what technology wants.

KK clearly put forward his point of view: "Technology is alive". KK said: "I think technology is the seventh existence of life. The life forms currently defined by human beings include plants, animals, protozoa, fungi, protobacteria and eubacteria, and technology should be a new life form. "

necessity

Published by Electronic Industry Press and East-West Library, 20 15 1 1.6 was exclusively launched by Luo Ji Thinking.

This paper mainly narrates kevin kelly's observation and analysis of science and technology for decades, and wonderfully comments on the inevitable trend of current science and technology development, which provides a very forward-looking vision and guidance for the development of science and technology industry. In his book, kevin kelly elaborated on twelve inevitable scientific and technological forces, and described how these trends will form a joint force to guide our direction in the next 30 years.

According to his past work experience and keen observation of future trends, the author kevin kelly made a simple judgment on twelve key words: formation, knowledge, mobility, screen reading, use, filtering, remixing, interaction, tracking, questioning and starting, and pointed them out for us with various vivid cases in real life. Every one is an emerging trend. At the same time, various signs in life also show that these trends will last for at least 30 years.