It's time for another edition of our free,

currently asked questions. That's when we run a set of fixed questions past some

noteworthy guests. First time out, we talk to Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London.

I collect old cheese boxes.

Today, we're putting the questions to Kevin Kelly, one of the founders of Wired Magazine.

He's also a technology writer. His books include What Technology Wants and New Rules for

the New Economy. He'll tell us how he got started in publishing.

I think it was the first person in the world to be hired online in 1983.

Why he's dying to travel into the future?

I would give so much just to get a sense of the trajectory of the cosmos because I think

we're really blinded and short-sighted and particularly swayed by the last 100 years.

And then there's this. When's the last time you dropped acid? Kevin?

I tell you, there's nothing more boring than hearing someone's acid.

From WNYC, this is Freakinomics Radio, the podcast that explores the hidden side of everything.

Here's your host, Stephen Dupner.

Okay, so let's start. Tell us who you are and what you do.

My name is Kevin Kelly. I'm senior maverick at Wired Magazine.

I'm a magazine that I co-founded about 20 years ago and what I do is write books about the consequences

of technology, the impact of technology in our lives, which is really what Wired was about.

The culture around technology rather than technology itself.

And Kevin, tell me in 60 seconds or so what you actually do in a given day?

I spend most of my day reading. I read magazines and books and then I try and write a little about

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