John Brockman (literary agent)

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John Brockman (born 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature. He founded the Edge Foundation, an organization aimed to bring together people working at the edge of a broad range of scientific and technical fields.

[edit] Quotes

• "Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time."^{[citation needed]}
• "Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody."^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Bibliography

• (1969) By the Late John Brockman
• (1988) Doing Science: The Reality Club
• (1995) The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution ISBN 0684823446
• (1996) Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite
• (2003) The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century ISBN 0753817101
• (2003) The New Humanists: Science at the Edge ISBN 0-7607-4529-3
• (2006) What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty ISBN 0-06-084181-8
• (2006) Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement ISBN 0-307-27722-4
• (2007) What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable ISBN 0061214957

[edit] External links

• John Brockman
• Brockman's taste for Science or how to entertain the smartest people
• Guardian Interview
• John Brockman at HuffPo
• "So What Happens After Happenings?", New York Times, 4 September 1966
• John Brockman: 40 years of "intermedia kinetic environments"