Gary Wolf (journalist)
American writer (born 1961)
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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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| Born | 1961 (age 64–65) |
| 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 |
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]
In 2020, he codeveloped a conceptual framework to guide research and education into the practice of personal science.[13]
