This article refers to the journalist and contributing editor for Wired magazine. For the novelist and creator of the Roger Rabbit universe, see Gary K. Wolf.

Gary Wolf is a writer and contributing editor at Wired magazine. Among his other Wired stories, Wolf is the author of "The Curse of Xanadu," about Ted Nelson

Ted Nelson

Theodor Holm Nelson is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" in 1963 and published it in 1965...

 and Project Xanadu

Project Xanadu

Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it an improvement over the World Wide Web, with mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper...

, and "The World According to Woz", about Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak

Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak is an American computer engineer and programmer who founded Apple Computer, Co. with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne...

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With Kevin Kelly, Wolf co-founded the Quantified Self, a collaboration of users and tool makers who share an interest in self knowledge through self-tracking.

Wolf lives in Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...

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Books

• Aether Madness: An Offbeat Guide to the Online World, with Michael Stein (Peachpit Press, 1995)
• Dumb Money: Adventures of a Day Trader, with Joey Anuff (Random House, 2000)
• Wired – A Romance (Random House, 2003)

External links

• AETHER Wolf's personal site.
• Telepolis interview with Gary Wolf
• "Gold Mania in the Yukon," New York Times Magazine, May 11, 2011
• "Magic Mushrooms," (New York Times) T Style Magazine, May 7, 2006
• "The Church of the Non-Believers ," Wired, November 2006