Marcus Bösch

Hobby. Lebensläufe lesen. Heute: Kevin Kelly.

My educational background is minimal. I am a college drop out. Instead of going to university, I went to Asia. That was one of the best decisions I ever made.

I traveled in the 1970s as a poor, solo photographer in the hinterlands and villages of Asia, between Iran and Japan. I traveled on about US$2,500 per year and came back with 36,000 slides. I have put them together into a gorgeously colorful photographic book called Asia Grace. There are no words, no captions, no page numbers.

I returned to the US in 1979, and rode a bicycle 5,000 miles across the US.
In about 1982 I began a mail order company called Nomadic Books.
In 1983 I started a magazine about walking that was sadly ahead of its time.

In 1984 I moved to California to co-edit Co-Evolution Quarterly, published by the Whole Earth Catalog … I became its editor in chief and publisher. Whole Earth was the first general magazine to report on virtual reality, ecological restoration, the global teenager, techno culture and artificial life (to name just a few pioneering trends).

In 1992 I joined a small team which launched Wired magazine in January 1993. I served as Executive Editor from September 1992 to January 1999. During my tenure Wired won the prestigious National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice (in 1994 and 1997). Undsoweiterundsofort.