John Brockman
JOHN BROCKMAN is a cultural impresario whose career has
encompassed the
avant-garde art world, science, books, software, and the
Internet.
In the 1960s he coined the word "intermedia" and pioneered
"intermedia kinetic environments" in art, theatre, and
commerce,
while also consulting for clients such as General Electric,
Columbia
Pictures, Scott Paper, The Pentagon, and the White House.
In 1973, he formed Brockman, Inc., the international
literary and
software agency specializing in serious nonfiction. He is
the founder
of the nonprofit Edge Foundation, Inc. and editor of Edge
, the highly acclaimed website devoted to discussions
of cutting edge science by many of the world's brilliant
thinkers,
the leaders of what he has termed "the third culture".
Included in his works as author and/or editor are By
the Late John Brockman;
The Third Culture; Digerati: Encounters with
the Cyber
Elite; The Greatest Inventions of the Past Two
Thousand Years;
The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the
Twenty-First
Century; and The New Humanists: Science at the
Edge.
Brockman
has the distinction of being the only person to have been
profiled
on Page One of both The New York Sunday Times "Arts
& Leisure" (1966), and The New York Times "Science
Times" (1997).
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Series
Books:What We Believe but Cannot Prove, March 2006
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