Kevin kelly lives in Pasifika, California, a coastal town south of San Francisco. He is a devout Christian. After marriage, they have three sons: Tai Wen, Ting and Kailin. Kevin kelly's works are scattered in The New York Times, Harper Magazine, Time Magazine, Science, GQ, Esquire, Economist and many other magazines. His photos were published in Life and other national magazines. In addition, he has written many books and edited, founded and co-sponsored many magazines.
At the age of 27, kevin kelly was a freelance photojournalist. When he was in Jerusalem, he was shut out of the hotel because he came back too late. So he slept in the place where Jesus was crucified. The next morning, he experienced a magical religious experience. He decided to live like a man with only six months to live. He lived in peace with his parents, donated money anonymously, visited relatives and friends, and then went home to "die" on Halloween night.
198 1 year, Kelly founded the Walking Diary. He has been the editor of Global Review, Signal and Global Survey. Together with Stewart Brand, the founder of Global Survey, he founded WELL, a well-received online community. He was a director of the Point Foundation, which launched the first "Hacker Conference" at 1984 (it should be noted that the word hacker was not derogatory at that time).
Kelly's most famous work is Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and Economic World (1994), which is a voluminous book about the evolution of human society (or more generally complex systems). For those readers who are not afraid of "mind gymnastics", opening this book is bound to be beneficial.