John Brockman (literary agent)

John Brockman (literary agent)

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.

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." [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/]
*"Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody." [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/]

Bibliography

*(1969) "By the Late John Brockman"
*(1988) "Doing Science: The Reality Club"
*(1995) "" ISBN 0684823446
*(1996) "Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite"
*(2003) "" ISBN 0753817101
*(2003) "The New Humanists: Science at the Edge" ISBN 0-7607-4529-3
*(2006) "" ISBN 0-06-084181-8
*(2006) "" ISBN 0-307-27722-4
*(2007) "" ISBN 0061214957

External links

* [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/brockman.html John Brockman]
* [http://artnode.se/artorbit/issue4/i_brockman/i_brockman.html Brockman's taste for Science or how to entertain the smartest people]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1472567,00.html Guardian Interview]
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-brockman/ John Brockman at HuffPo]
* [http://www.brockman.com/press/1966.09.04.NYT.html "So What Happens After Happenings?"] , "New York Times", 4 September 1966
* [http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/03/john_brockman_40_yea.html "John Brockman: 40 years of "intermedia kinetic environments"]


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