"One of the great intellectual enzymes of our time. (An enzyme is a biological catalyst — an adroit enabler of otherwise impossible things.)" — Stewart Brand

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(www.edge.org), 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". 

"A kind of thinker that does not exist in Europe" — La Stampa

Included in his works as author and/or editor areBy the Late John Brockman; The Third Culture; Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite;The New Humanists: Science at the Edge;Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist; Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement. In addition, he is editor of a series of books based on the EdgeAnnual Question: What We Believe but Cannot Prove; What Is Your Dangerous Idea?; and What Are You Optimistic About?

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). 

"A bizarre, brilliant, bulldozer of a thinker who has done as much as anyone, anywhere, to shape today's intellectual landscape."
— David Gelernter

Brockman at the Factory with Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan, 1967

Photo: Nat Finkelstein. Copyright © Nat Finkelstein.

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RECENT PRESS

Chosun.com [May 5, 2013], Korean Joong Ang Daily [April 13, 2013], La Stampa [July 22, 2012], Dazed [January 9, 2012], The Observer (UK) [January 8, 2012] WiredUK [February 3, 2011] Süddeutsche Zeitung [February 16, 2011]

JOHN BROCKMAN: AT THE FOREFRONT OF KNOWLEDGE
Korean Joong Ang Daily [April 13, 2013]

Playing a more influential role than editors, referred to as the 'culture conductor' or 'enzymes of knowledge', John Brockman is at the forefront of knowledge with the Edge Foundation, which has more than 700 people contributing...

John Brockman's new book is rich with the latest by cultural studies experts in various fields, such as author and geography scholar Jared Diamond, the popular musician and cultural theorist Brian Eno, Harvard Medical School professor Nicholas Christakis, famous for his study of social network contagion effect...

Brockman, the rare individual who can comfortably call New York's avant-garde artists and Nobel Prize winners alike, has been a consultant to The White House and to the Pentagon. Every year, he hosts the "Edge Dinner'. among the Internet industry bigwigs who have attended what has become known as "The Billionaires' Dinner ' are Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Amazon founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, as well as Facebook's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg,  

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THE MAN WHO HAS TAKEN GENIUS TO A GLOBAL LEVEL
Donkyoo Park, Chosun.com [May 5, 2013]

Meet the 'Edge Series' organizer John Brockman

"In asking some of the the most sophisticated thinkers in the world 'What are the questions you are asking yourselves?' I am aware that this is not for everybody. I am aiming at the brightest people and fortunately, there enough people out there interested in the latest knowledge derived from empirical scientific investigations.

...The office window in John Brockman's (age 72) office looks out at the Empire State Building. He is an architect and impresario of 'scientific ideas' and a showman. Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, Jared Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel Steven Pinker's How The Mind Works .... these towering books, representative of his interests, go through his hands, both in his professional role as a literary agent and CEO of Brockman, Inc. and in wearing his nonprofit hat as President of Edge Foundation, Inc. and publisher and editor of Edge.

Brockman has taken scientists out of their usual territory, and secured for them a global role as the most highly recognized thinkers in the society of informed intellectuals. 

Thus, the focus of the new Edge book This Will Change Everything is concerned with predictions about the future based on empirical scientific evidence. Korean translation by Kim So. Published by Galleon.

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2005- 2010

The Focus; Nieman Reports; La Republica [January 14, 2010] I l Giornale [January 20, 2010]; La Stampa [Juanuray 20,2010]; Internazionale; Il Sole [January 21, 2010]; ° La Nacion [March 30, 2008] ° The Observer [July 01, 2007] ° The New York Times Magazine[January 21, 2007] ° Telegraph [January 02, 2007] ° La Stampa [November 22, 2006] ° eFollett Reader's Choice Newsletter[Summer, 2006] ° La Vanguardia [January 9, 2006]

2000 - 2005

La Vanguardia[December 5, 2005] °La Vanguardia[September 14, 2005] ° The Sunday Times[August 28, 2005] ° El Pais[May 12, 2005] ° The Guardian[April 30, 2005] ° Quark[February 7, 2005] ° Il Sole 24 Ore[January 16, 2005] American Scientist [March - April, 2002] ° La Weekly [October 31, 2001] ° Focus[October 8, 2001] ° The New York Times [August 7, 2001] ° Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung[August 1, 2001] ° Inside Magazine [March 20, 2001] ° Aventis Future [February, 2001] ° The New York Times [January 9, 2001] ° Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung [January 9, 2001] ° Die Woche [December 8, 2000] ° Die Welt[November 21, 2000] ° Berliner Zeitung [September 10, 2000] ° Prospect Magazine [August/September 2000] ° Time Out New York [April 8, 2000] ° The Independent [March 25, 2000] ° New York Magazine [March, 13 2000] ° The Wall Street Journal [February 28, 2000] ° Der Spiegel [February 21, 2000] ° Asahi Shimbun[February 3, 2000] ° Silicon Alley Reporter [January 2000] ° Bill Gates Syndiacated Column [January 27, 2000] ° Newsweek [January 11, 2000] ° The Wall Street Journal[January 4, 2000] ° The Daily Telegraph[January 4, 2000] ° Silicon Alley Reporter [2000]

1990s

Wired [September, 1999] ° Art Orbit [February, 1999] ° Upside [May, 1998] ° Wired [April, 1998] ° Science[February 13, 1998] ° New Scientist [February 7, 1998] ° Atlantic [January 8, 1998] ° The Independent[December 31, 1997] ° The New York Times [December 30, 1997] ° The Web Magazine[October, 1997] ° Smithsonian Magazine [October, 1997] ° The New York Times [October 14, 1997] ° Focus [October 14, 1996] ° The Daily Telegraph[September 30, 1995] ° Philadelphia Inquirer [September 6, 1995] ° La Repubblica [September 13, 1995] ° Wired[August, 1995] ° L'Espresso [July 28, 1995] ° The New York Times[June 19, 1995] ° New Scientist[March 6, 1995] ° The Sunday Times [October 2, 1994] ° Publishing News[April 30, 1993] ° The Sunday Times[December 13, 1992] ° Berlingske Tiden [November 26, 1992] °New Statesman[September 25, 1992] ° Information[September 7, 1992] ° Insight[January 6, 1992] ° The Los Angeles Times[November 28, 1991]

1980s

The Jamais Vu Papers[April, 1989] ° Whole Earth Review[Summer, 1987] ° Forbes[November, 1985] °Manhattan, Inc. [October, 1985] ° Inc. [April, 1985] ° The Computer Entrepreneurs [November, 1984] °Newsweek Access [Fall, 1984] ° Venture [July, 1984] ° United[August, 1983]

1960s 

Poetry Center[February, 1969] ° MoMA[June 3, 1969] ° Cavalier[February, 1969] ° Arts Magazine[February, 1969] ° The New Yorker[November 23, 1968]° New York Times[November 5, 1968] ° Newsweek[March 18, 1968] ° The New York Times [February 4, 1968] ° Women's Wear Daily[1967] ° The Herald Tribune [1967] °The New York Times[September 16, 1967] ° Vogue [August 1, 1967] ° The New York Times [September 4, 1966] ° Life [May 27, 1966]° The Nation [December 25, 1965]