Should You Give Up Gadgets for a Day?
Clearly, some of us make bad decisions with our gadgets (case in point: Mel Gibson). But even without having to live down a mobile-phone–fueled tirade of Gibsonian proportions, many of us have sought...
View ArticleDoes Technology Live Forever? Submit Your Dead Tech
Technology becomes obsolete, but nothing goes away. That’s what WIRED magazine’s founding editor Kevin Kelly argues in his new book What Technology Wants. He claims that inventions never go extinct...
View ArticleKevin Kelly’s 6 Words for the Modern Internet
If you had to pick six words to define the future of the internet, what would they be? Wired co-founder and Senior Maverick Kevin Kelly shared six choice words of his own at the inaugural NExTWORK...
View ArticleQ&A: Hacker Historian George Dyson Sits Down With Wired’s Kevin Kelly
George Dyson talks to Wired/cite> about the big bang of the digital universe and his new book, Turing's Cathedral. The post Q&A: Hacker Historian George Dyson Sits Down With Wired's Kevin Kelly...
View ArticleWhy the Zipcar-Avis Deal Means You’ll Finally Be Able to Give Up Your Car
While Zipcar investors count their cash from today's half-billion-dollar acquisition by Avis, the rest of us can start counting the days until we can say good riddance to one of the suckiest aspects of...
View ArticleStep Behind the Scenes of the Frantic, Madcap Birth of Wired
An Oral History of Wired 01.01. The post Step Behind the Scenes of the Frantic, Madcap Birth of Wired appeared first on WIRED.
View ArticleStop Faking the Funk and Go Make a Picture
Make pictures you like, not pictures you think someone else will like. If you do, the clients will come. Brent Humphreys says that's the best piece of advice he ever got and it's what helped him...
View Article‘Touch Generations’ and 1,000 Years
I was recently listening to a lecture by Kevin Kelly where he introduces the concept of touch generations, the idea of a list of people based on when one person died and when the next was born: one...
View ArticleYour Guide to the Weirdest, Most Wonderful Things in the World
Kevin Kelly's "Cool Tools" book is a tangible, hand-curated version of his iconic web site. It's 473 pages of weird, wonderful, and useful products. These are some of our favorites. The post Your Guide...
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