Kevin Kelly:凯文·凯利是 Whole Earth Review 的出版人 ，WIRED 的执行编辑 ，视觉非盈利组织的发起者，传记作者 和商人。他对技术的远见 历史的追溯，传记和宗教 的认识都令人称赞。

凯文·凯利(Kevin Kelly，1952～，人们经常亲昵地称他为 KK)，《连线》(Wired)杂志创始主编。在创办《连线》之前，是《全球概览》杂志的编辑和出版人。他的文章还出现在《纽约时报》、《经济学人》、《时代》、《科学》等重量级媒体和杂志上。

凯文·凯利被看作是网络文化(Cyberculture)的发言人和观察者，也有人称之为游侠(maverick)。1999年的电影《黑客帝国》(Matrix)在某种程度上是对凯文·凯利对网络文化的观察和预言的一种隐喻。《失控》也是该片导演要求主要演员必读的三本书之一。

A few years ago I co-founded the All Species Foundation, a non-profit organization aimed at cataloging and identifying every living species on earth. I hoped to give each organism its own web page. The genesis of this idea is described in this account. The Foundation is now defunct, but the project of giving each species their own web page lives on as the Encyclopedia of Life.

A few years ago I was invited to commence a year-long series of essays on culture and science for the 100th anniversary of the journal Science. My contribution, called the Third Culture, is about the emerging culture surrounding technology.