John Brockman

Amerikaans literary agent

John Brockman (Boston, Massachusetts, 1941) is een agent en schrijver, gespecialiseerd in wetenschappelijke literatuur.

John Brockman

Hij is de oprichter van de Edge Foundation en beheerder van de website Edge, een debatcentrum voor schrijvers, wetenschappers en filosofen.

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  • (1969) By the Late John Brockman
  • (1970) 37
  • (1973) "Afterwords: Explorations of the Mystical Limits of Contemporary Reality"
  • (1988) Doing Science: The Reality Club
  • (1995) The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
  • (1996) Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite
  • (1996) How Things Are: A Science Tool-Kit for the Mind (edited by John Brockman and Katinka Matson), Harper Perennial
  • (2002) The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century
  • (2003) The New Humanists: Science at the Edge ISBN 0-7607-4529-3
  • (2004) Curious Minds : How a Child becomes a Scientist (edited by John Brockman), New York: Pantheon Books
  • (2006) What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty ISBN 0-06-084181-8
  • (2006) Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement ISBN 0-307-27722-4
  • (2007) What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
  • (2007) What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better
  • (2009) What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything. (samen met Alan Alda, Brian Eno, Ray Kurzweil, Irene Pepperberg, Steven Pinker, Lisa Randall en anderen)
  • (2009) This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future (samen met Patrick Bateson, Oliver Morton, Stephen Schneider, Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, K. Eric Drexler en anderen)
  • (2011) Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology
  • (2011) "Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future"
  • (2012) "This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking"
  • (2013) "This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works"
  • (2014) "What Should We Be Worried About?: The Hidden Threats Nobody Is Talking About"
  • (2015) "This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories that are Blocking Progress
  • (2015) "What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
  • (2016) "Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments"
  • (2017) "This Idea is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know"
  • (2019) Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI (redactie door John Brockman)

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