The syllabus for most of my education was defined by The Whole Earth Catalog, so Kevin Kelly has always been more than a teacher to me, he's been a dean. He edited the final versions of The Catalog, played significant editorial roles in the Whole Earth Review, and in Signal, a Whole Earth Catalog about communications. Then Louis Rossetto hired him to help launch WIRED, and the rest, well, I'm still learning from him.

Buoyed by the systems view that The Whole Earth Catalog showed me, Kelly, circa 2021, has a lot of reasons for optimism to share. In a world reduced to ridiculous simplicity by the likes of CNN and FoxNews, his perspective provides reasoned and intelligent reason to embrace optimism.

Article: Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism