Gary Wolf | |
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 Gary Wolf in 2011 | |
| Born | 1961 (age 63–64) |
| Education | Reed College (BA) UC Berkeley (MA) |
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| Employer | Wired |
| Organization | Quantified Self |
| Known for | Quantified Self |
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| Website | Story Archive |
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.
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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] [6] Steve Wozniak, [7] Ray Kurzweil, [8] a long interview with Steve Jobs, [9] and Amazon. [10] 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. [11]
In 2007, with Kevin Kelly, [12] 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. [13]
In 2020, he codeveloped a conceptual framework to guide research and education into the practice of personal science. [14]
