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Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor from its inception until 1999. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets half a million unique visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control."

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Personal Shadow Outsourcing

Originally posted in The Technium

For years I've heard apocryphal stories of knowledge workers in Silicon Valley who outsourced their job themselves. They had permission to work at home, but in fact outsourced their work to cheap Chinese or Indian labor. The Valley worker would work only a few hours per day overseeing his help, and goof off the rest. The Asian workers under him were delighted wi...

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	What Technology Wants 3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 1,148 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World 4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 458 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Rules for the New Economy 3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asia Grace 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2002	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silver Cord (Book 1) by Kevin Kelly (Goodreads Author), Steve Masseroni, Kiel Murray 2.38 of 5 stars 2.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	True Films 1.0 3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Signal : communication tools for the information age, a Whole Earth catalog 4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1988	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cool Tools in the Kitchen by Kevin Kelly (Goodreads Author), Steven Leckart 3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Signal: Communications Tools for the Information Age 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cool Tools 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Kevin Kelly wrote a new blog post I'll Pay You to Read My Book Originally posted in The Technium Nobody reads big factual books anymore. Who has time? With a lot of effort you can get folks to buy big factual b... Read more of this blog post »
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“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.”
― Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

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“...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.”
― Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

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“Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.”
― Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

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