"I met people who would say, 'I wish I had more time to travel like you do.' They had more money than time, and I had more time than money. In terms of traveling it's much better to have more time than more money. ...If you have a chance to travel, just do it. You won't regret it." – Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly (
@kevin2kelly) is a polymath in the truest sense of the word. Aside from being a co-founder of
Wired magazine, he is also co-founder of the
Rosetta Project, which is aiming to build an archive of all documented human languages, and he serves on the board of the
Long Now Foundation. He is a photographer, writer, and futurist (he was “futurist adviser” on the 2002
Steven Spielberg movie,
Minority Report), with much of his work centering on Asian and digital culture.
In this episode of
Deviate, Rolf and Kevin discuss the inspiration for his Asia travel in the 1970s (3:00); getting around and dealing with language barriers (15:00); the people he encountered while traveling in Asia, and the life-expanding nature of his journey (32:00); what he packed (47:00); modernity and technology in Asia, and managing his photography during travel (1:07:00); and self-actualization, discovering oneself through travel, and what the future holds in Asia.
For more on Kevin, check out
http://kk.org/
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The Deviate theme music comes from the title track of Cedar Van Tassel's 2017 album Lumber.
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