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American writer (born 1961)
This article is about the journalist and contributing editor for
Wired magazine. For the novelist and creator of the Roger Rabbit universe, see
Gary K. Wolf .
Gary Wolf is an American writer, contributing editor at
Wired magazine, and co-founder of the
Quantified Self .
[1] Wolf earned a
BA from
Reed College in
Portland, Oregon and an
MA from the
University of California, Berkeley .
Wolf published for
The New York Times Magazine ,
[2]
[3]
[4] and
Wired . Wolf wrote several long articles for Wired magazine. Among them he wrote an article about
Ted Nelson and
Project Xanadu ,
[5]
Steve Wozniak ,
[6]
Ray Kurzweil ,
[7] a long interview with
Steve Jobs ,
[8] and
Amazon .
[9] He coined the pejorative
New Atheism in 2006 to describe the positions promoted by some atheists of the 21st century, among them
Richard Dawkins ,
Sam Harris ,
Christopher Hitchens and
Daniel Dennett .
[10]
In 2007, with
Kevin Kelly ,
[11] Wolf co-founded the
Quantified Self ,
[1] a collaboration of users and tool makers who share an interest in self-knowledge through self-tracking. In 2010, he spoke about the movement at
TED .
[12]
Books
Aether Madness: An Offbeat Guide to the Online World , with Michael Stein (Peachpit Press, 1995)
[13]
Dumb Money: Adventures of a Day Trader , with Joey Anuff (Random House, 2000)
[14]
Wired – A Romance (Random House, 2003)
[15]
References
^
a
b Singer, Emily.
"The Measured Life" .
MIT . Retrieved July 5, 2011 .
^ Wolf, Gary (April 28, 2010).
"The Data-Driven Life" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved December 13, 2020 .
^ Wolf, Gary (May 7, 2006).
"Magic Mushrooms" . The New York Times .
^ Wolf, Gary (May 11, 2011).
"Gold Mania in the Yukon (Published 2011)" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved December 20, 2020 .
^ Wolf, Gary (June 1, 1995).
"The Curse of Xanadu" .
Wired . San Francisco.
^ Wolf, Gary (September 1, 1998).
"The World According to Woz" .
Wired . San Francisco.
^ Wolf, Gary (March 24, 2008).
"Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Survive to the Singularity" .
Wired . San Francisco.
^ Wolf, Gary (February 1, 1996).
"Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing" .
Wired . San Francisco.
^ Wolf, Gary (December 1, 2003).
"The Great Library of Amazonia" .
Wired . San Francisco.
^ Wolf, Gary (November 1, 2006).
"The Church of the Non-Believers" .
Wired . San Francisco.
^ Wolf, Gary.
"Quantified Self" . Gary Wolf. Archived from
the original on March 20, 2012. Retrieved March 26, 2012 .
^ Wolf, Gary.
"The quantified self" .
TED (conference) . Retrieved March 26, 2012 .
^ Wolf, Gary; Stein, Michael (1995).
Aether Madness: An Offbeat Guide to the Online World . Peachpit Press.
ISBN
978-1-56609-020-9 .
^ Wolf, Gary; Anuff, Joey (April 18, 2000).
Dumb Money: Adventures of a Day Trader . Random House Publishing Group.
ISBN
978-0-375-50467-9 .
^ Wolf, Gary (July 8, 2003).
Wired-A Romance . Random House Publishing Group.
ISBN
978-1-58836-304-6 .
External links
International National Academics