Cool Tools - A Catalog of Possibilities

An illustrated catalogue of the world's best tools to accomplish any dream, from raising chickens to crowdfunding artwork, starting a set-up business, building a log cabin, printing 3D objects and tracking your health stats. Reviews more than 1500 different tools, based on ten years of user reviews on the Cool Tools website.

About the author

Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor from its inception until 1999. He is editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets half a million unique visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His last book, What Technology Wants (Viking/Penguin October 18, 2010), asserted that technology as a whole is not just a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. He also authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control.

Kevin Kelly's website is kk.org.

Summary

An illustrated catalog of the world's best tools to accomplish any dream. It directs you to the best tools to help you: raise backyard chickens, crowd fund your artwork, start a startup business, build a log cabin, print 3D objects, track your health stats, or vagabond the world.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Kelly
• Assisted by: Kevin Kelly (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781940689005
• ISBN: 978-1-940689-00-5
• Dimensions: 279 mm x 355 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 1927 g
• Illustrations: Color and B&W photos and illustrations throughout
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Home improvement, DIY; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Heimwerken, Do it Yourself, Verbraucherberatung, Haus: Wartung und Instandhaltung, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Green Business, Basteln / Heimwerken, Englische Bücher / Sachbuch / Hobby, Freizeit, REFERENCE / Consumer Guides, HOUSE & HOME / Power Tools, REFERENCE / Catalogs, HOUSE & HOME / Hand Tools, Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business, Business & the environment, 'Green' approaches to business, Consumer advice