KK’s life

In 1952, Kevin Kelly was born in Pennsylvania. He graduated from Westfield High School in New Jersey in 1970 and dropped out of the University of Rhode Island after one year.

Kevin Kelly lives in Pacifica, California, a coastal town south of San Francisco. He is a devout Christian. He has three children after marriage: Tywen, Ting and Kaileen. Kevin Kelly's work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper's Magazine, Time, Science, GQ, Esquire, The Economist, and various other magazines. His photography has been published in Life and other national magazines. In addition, he has authored many books and edited, founded, and co-organized many magazines.

At the age of 27, Kevin Kelly was a freelance photojournalist. When he was in Jerusalem, he was locked out of the hotel because he returned too late. So he slept at the place where Jesus had been crucified. The next morning, he had a magical religious experience. He decided to live like a man with only six months to live. He lived peacefully with his parents, donated his money anonymously, visited relatives and friends, and then returned home to "die" on Halloween night.

In 1981, Kelly founded Walking Journal. He has served as editor of Whole Earth Review, Signal, and The Whole Earth Catalog. Together with Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, he founded the critically acclaimed online community WELL. He was the director of the Point Foundation, which initiated the first Hackers Conference in 1984 (it should be noted that the word Hacker did not have the current derogatory connotation at that time).

Kelly is best known for Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (1994), a novel that considers human society (and more generally This "large" work on the evolution of complex systems in the sense of Sense of Nature is bound to be a useful read for readers who are not afraid of "mental gymnastics."