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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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...is infecting more parts of the world. A major element of equity culture is the ideology that every person working in a company should have the opportunity to own part of it. In most American high-tech companies, stock options for employees are mandatory. Shares in the company are often used to recruit hot talent, or to be dispensed as bonuses, or, in the case of...

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Average rating: 3.95 · 1,319 ratings · 241 reviews · 24 distinct works
What Technology Wants
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 587 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions
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Out Of Control: The New Bio...
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 292 ratings5 editions
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New Rules for the New Economy
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions
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Asia Grace
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2002
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True Films 1.0
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Signal : communication tool...
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1988
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Cool Tools in the Kitchen
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011
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Signal: Communications Tool...
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Cool Tools
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003
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Bicycle Haiku
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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
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“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.”
Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

“...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

“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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