name: John Brockman
birth_date: 1941-02-16 00:00:00
genres: Science, Nonfiction
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about: John Brockman is an American literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature. He established the Edge Foundation, an organization that brings together leading edge thinkers across a broad range of scientific and technical fields.He is author and editor of several books, including: The Third Culture (1995); The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years (2000); The Next Fifty Years (2002) and The New Humanists (2003).He has the distinction of being the only person to have been profiled on Page One of the "Science Times" (1997) and the "Arts &amp; Leisure" (1966), both supplements of The New York Times. John Brockman is an American literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature. He established the Edge Foundation, an organization that brings together leading edge thinkers across a broad range of scientific and technical fields.He is author and editor of several books, including: The Third Culture (1995); The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years (2000); The Next Fifty Years (2002) and The New Humanists (2003).He has the distinction of being the only person to have been profiled on Page One of the "Science Times" (1997) and the "Arts &amp; Leisure" (1966), both supplements of The New York Times. ...more