Kevin Kelly
Senior Maverick at Wired, author of bestseller book, The Inevitable. Also Cool Tool maven, Recomendo chief, Asia-holic, and True Film buff.
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Philippe Starck, Kartell and Autodesk unveil "first production chair designed with artificial…
This captioned video produced by Dezeen for Autodesk reveals Philippe Starck's A.I. chair for Kartell, which the software company claims is the first chair designed using artificial intelligence to be…
Jimmy Carter took call about China from concerned Donald Trump: "China has…
Carter said Trump was worried that “China is getting ahead of us,” and suggested the president was right to be concerned.
Notes on AI Bias
Machine learning is one of the most important fundamental trends in tech today, and it’s one of the main ways that tech will change things in the broader world in the next decade. As part of this,…
Proposals for Reasonable Technology Regulation and an Internet Court
I have seen the outlines of a regulatory and judicial regime for internet companies that begins to make sense to me. In it, platforms set and are held...
North Korea's elite hackers are funding nukes with crypto raids
APT 38 is Kim Jong-un's highly skilled group of bank hackers. After raising $1 billion for the country from heists, its attention turned to cryptocurrency
5G is a war the US is about to lose warns DoD
The US Department of Defense has warned that America could find itself conceding the guiding hand on 5G – and, as a result, wireless security in general – to China, if wide-reaching pol…
Hindsight 2070: We asked 15 experts, "What do we do now that…
Predicting society’s moral evolution on eating meat, kids playing football, 401(k)s, and more.
Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm
My first video of a 3 part series on "coordinated inauthentic behavior". Thanks to ExpressVPN for sponsoring this series. Get 3 months free with 12-month pla...
Your Speech, Their Rules: Meet the People Who Guard the Internet
Tech platform trust and safety employees are charged with policing the impossible. They open up to Medium’s head of trust and safety.
Changing Sketches into Photorealistic Masterpieces
A deep learning model developed by NVIDIA Research turns rough doodles into highly realistic scenes using generative adversarial networks (GANs). The tool is...
Dutch Reach Project – A site to promote the Dutch far-hand habit…
Mobile electronic traffic sign texts the Dutch Reach, posted by Somerville Police Dept., Somerville, Massachusetts, USA, Sept. 7, 2016. Sign triggered media coverage which since brought this safety…
Famous Authors are Writing Books for a Time Capsule Library None of…
In the frosty forest of Nordmarka, Norway, the seeds have been quietly planted to save the future of the written word. Every year for the next 100 years, 100 famous authors have pledged to each write…
'Snapchat Dysmorphia' Points To A Troubling New Trend In Plastic Surgery
Those pretty flower crown filters could have an ugly side.
Current Passions
I remain the official Senior Maverick for Wired, a magazine I helped co-found 25 years ago. I do one article for Wired per year. My most recent published writings are listed here, in chronological…
AR Will Spark the Next Big Tech Platform—Call It Mirrorworld
We are building a 1-to-1 map of almost unimaginable scope. When it's complete, our physical reality will merge with the digital universe.
Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords
Once, robots assisted human workers. Now it’s the other way around.
China’s Looming Crisis: A Shrinking Population
Decades of “one child” policy, a declining birth rate and an increase in life expectancy add up to fewer young workers able to support a huge and aging population.
‘Reeducating’ Xinjiang’s Muslims
In a courtroom in Zharkent, Kazakhstan, in July 2018, a former kindergarten principal named Sayragul Sauytbay calmly described what Chinese officials continue to deny: a vast new gulag of “de…
