John Brockman life and biography

John Brockman (born 1941) 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. Referencing C.P. Snow's "two cultures", he introduced the "third culture" consisting of "those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are."

Author of books:

By the late John Brockman (1969)
Afterwords (1973)
37 (1970)
Reality Club (1988)
Creativity (1993)
Third Culture (1995)
Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite (1996)
Curious minds:How a Child Becomes a Scientist (2004)
Next fifty years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century (2002)
New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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