Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of *Wired* magazine, a technology writer and futurist known for his long-view perspective on tech trends. In a 2025 visit to China, he voiced strong optimism for Chinese smart-glasses makers — specifically Rokid, which he singled out twice during a keynote — over Apple in the race for that form factor . His 2015 book *The Inevitable* anticipated "screening" and the "mirrorworld," a digitally overlaid mixed-reality space that remains central to his current thinking . Kelly also pursues deliberately long-horizon projects: he is actively involved in building the 10,000-Year Clock in a West Texas mountain, alongside Brian Eno and Jeff Bezos . Elsewhere's corpus frames him, in the words of one partner piece, as a counterweight to the "wolfish" founder archetype — an alternative model for how to think about technology and time .