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]
^ a b Singer, Emily. "The Measured Life" . MIT . Archived from the original on July 1, 2019. 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) . Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2012 .