Kevin Kelly is a founding executive editor of Wired magazine and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review. He has also worked as a writer, photographer, conservationist, and student of Asian and digital culture. Kelly began contributing freelance articles to CoEvolution Quarterly in 1980 while living in Athens, Georgia. Around the same time, he was editing his own magazine called Walking Journal and working in an epidemiology laboratory for financial support. In 1983, Kelly was hired by Whole Earth founder Stewart Brand to edit later editions of the Whole Earth Catalog. In 1992, he was hired by Louis Rossetto to serve as executive editor of Wired, where he brought the cybernetic social vision of the Whole Earth publications. Kelly also recruited writers and editors from the WELL. He stepped down as executive editor in 1999 and currently holds the title of Senior Maverick at Wired. Kelly is known for his participation in and observation of cyberculture. His writing has been featured in various national and international publications, including The New York Times, The Economist, Time, and Harper's Magazine. One of his notable publications is the book "Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World" (1994). His newest book, "The Inevitable," reached the New York Times bestseller list in 2016. The book explores the deep trends that will shape our lives over the next 20 years, and Kelly suggests embracing these changes, including ubiquitous tracking.