WIRED Founder And Tech Author Speaks to MBA Students

Kevin Kelly spoke recently to three sections of our MBA students enrolled in Technology Enabled Innovation.  His latest book,”What Technology Wants” is a text in the course.

Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor from its inception until 1999. He has just finished a book for Viking/Penguin called "What Technology Wants," published October 18, 2010. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets half a million unique visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control.

Personal website: http://www.kk.org/

Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Kelly_%28editor%29

TED Talk 1: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/kevin_kelly_tells_technology_s_epic_story.html

TED talk 2: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/kevin_kelly_on_how_technology_evolves.htm