凯文·凯利是WholeEarthReview的出版人、WIRED的执行编辑、VisualNationalIntelligence的创始人、传记作家和商人。在技术、传记和宗教方面，他对历史的追溯都是值得称道的。

　　KevinKelly(Kelly,1952~)，常被昵称为KK)，是连线(Wired)杂志的创始主编。成立连线之前，他曾任《全球调查》杂志的编辑和出版人。这篇文章也曾在纽约时报、经济学人、时代周刊、科学杂志等重量级媒体和杂志发表。

　　KevinKelly被视为一位“网络文化”(Cyberculture)的发言人和观察者，而另一位观察者则被称为“游侠”。1999年的电影“黑客帝国”(Matrix)在某种程度上隐喻了KevinKelly对网络文化的观察和预言。电影“失去控制”也是导演要求主要演员们必须阅读的三本书之一。

　　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.