How to describe Kevin Kelly?

• Founder of Wired Magazine.
• Writer of industry defining essays like '1000 true fans' - https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
• Co-chair of The Long Now Foundation encouraging people to think on civilisational timescales
• Passionate traveller and photographer whose travelled remote parts of Asia for the last 50 years - https://kevin2kelly.myshopify.com/products/colors-of-asia-a-visual-journey
• The subject of the brilliant term, coined by Brie Wolfson - Flounder Mode https://joincolossus.com/article/flounder-mode/
• And a dream podcast guest

Kevin is known for many things, not least his optimism, but Kevin's flavour of optimism is what we calls 'protopian not utopian' - an acknowledgement that new technology creates major new problems but that over time we find ways to solve them

Chapters

00:00 The Hollywood Approach to Career Paths

05:20 Pursuing Interesting Projects

07:46 Influence and Unique Contributions

10:38 Radical Optimism Explained

13:38 The Choice of Optimism

16:28 The Reality of Progress

19:05 Wrestling with Counter Narratives

21:54 Building Better Technology

28:18 Navigating Technology's Strengths and Weaknesses

30:54 The Ethics of Technology Creation

33:14 The Role of Corporations in Technology

36:04 The Necessity of Innovation in Addressing Problems

42:14 Long-Term Thinking and the Long Now Foundation

47:55 Envisioning a Desirable Future

53:11 Celebrating Cultural Heritage Through Photography

Get in touch

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Email: seb@theuncommonfounder.com

Personal website: https://www.theuncommonfounder.com