Flounder mode and optimism

How to describe Kevin Kelly?

• Founder of Wired Magazine.

• Writer of industry defining essays like ‘1000 true fans’ - 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 - kevin2kelly.myshopify.com/products/colors-of-asia-a-visual-journey

• The subject of the brilliant term, coined by Brie Wolfson - Flounder Mode 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

Kevin’s essay on 1,000 True Fans.