John Brockman

John Brockman

John Brockman (born February 16, 1941 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American literary agent .

Life

Brockman was born to Jewish parents and grew up in Boston. After studying at the Babson Institute of Business Administration at Columbia University in New York City , he first worked as an investment banker and, in the 1960s, a multimedia artist. With Jonas Mekas he organized the Expanded Cinema Festival . In 1974 he founded his own company Brockman, Inc. to specialize as a literary agent in the marketing and promotion of prominent scholars in all fields who go public with their own theses and want to present their field and their way of thinking in a popular and generally understandable manner. Brockman's authors include Richard Dawkins , Steven Pinker , Alan Guth , Stephen Jay Gould , Jaron Lanier , Marc Hauser , Lee Smolin, and David Gelernter . Brockman became known through the slogan of the "Third Culture" propagated by him , which he explained in his book of the same name.

Brockman is the founder of the Edge Foundation , a website where scientists comment on key issues in research and technology.

Fonts

• The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution , Simon & Schuster : 1995 ISBN 0-684823446
  • The third culture, the worldview of modern natural science. Munich: Goldmann Verlag , 1996. ISBN 3-442-72035-4
• The New Humanists: Science at the Edge ISBN 0-760745293
  • The new humanists: science at the limit . Berlin 2004 ISBN 3-550-07597-9
• What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty ISBN 0-06-084181-8 .
• This Idea Must Die. Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress. HarperCollins Publishers , New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-06-237434-9 .
  • Which scientific idea is ripe for retirement? The leading minds of our time about ideas that prevent us from making progress. Fischer Taschenbuch , Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-596-03395-9 .
• What to think about machines that think . HarperCollins Perennial , New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-06-242565-2 .
  • What should we think of artificial intelligence? Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-596-29705-4 .
• This idea is brilliant. HarperCollins Perennial, New York 2018, ISBN 978-0-06-269821-6 .
• The Last Unknowns. HarperCollins Perennial, New York 2019, ISBN 978-0-06-289794-7 .

literature

• Georg Diez : Der Strippenzieher, in: Der Spiegel No. 47, November 17, 2014, pp. 138–140.

Web links

• Literature by and about John Brockman in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the Edge Foundation (Engl.)
• Biography of John Brockman (Engl.)
• FAZ / Jordan Mejias 2014: A visit to Brockman

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Diez : Der Strippenzieher, in: Der Spiegel No. 47, November 17, 2014, pp. 138-140.
2. ↑ Georg Diez : Der Strippenzieher, in: Der Spiegel No. 47, November 17, 2014, pp. 138-140.
3. ↑ Georg Diez : Der Strippenzieher, in: Der Spiegel No. 47, November 17, 2014, pp. 138-140.
4. ↑ Georg Diez : Der Strippenzieher, in: Der Spiegel No. 47, November 17, 2014, pp. 138-140.