Books by John Brockman

As Author
By the Late John Brockman
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Afterwords
The Third Culture

As Editor
About Bateson
Speculations
Doing Science
Way Of Knowing
Creativity

As Coeditor
How Things Are

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to Judy Herrick, who, for the past year, has presented me with thousands of pages of accurate transcriptions. I also want to thank a number of people at HardWired: Peter Rutten, the publisher, for his time and valuable suggestions; Donna Linden, production director, for her diligence and attentiveness; and Susanna Dulkinys, design director; Jennifer Colton, marketing director; Alex McOsker, marketing coordinator; Leslie Rossman, publicist; and Judith Dunham and Constance Hale, for their careful copy editing.

Thanks to Sarah Taylor at Brockman, Inc. who organized a great number of details in coordinating the final stages of the project.

Finally, special thanks and appreciation to Katinka Matson for her patience and support, and to our son, Max Brockman, who helped instigate the project, went on the road with me, videotaped many of the encounters, and assisted throughout.

"Brockman is a bizarre, brilliant, bulldozer of a thinker and a super-agent who has done as much as anyone, anywhere, to shape today's intellectual landscape."
— David Gelernter

Digerati
Encounters With The Cyber Elite
by John Brockman

Web Edition - Complete Text

Chapter 33

THE IMPRESARIO

Richard Saul Wurman

THE SCOUT (Stewart Brand): There's a sharp designer and an able business mind behind all that persiflage.

Richard Saul Wurman is the chairman and creative director of the TED conferences. He is also an architect, a cartographer, the creator of the Access Travel Guide Series, and the author and designer of more than sixty books, including Information Architects (1996), Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1991) and Information Anxiety (1989).

Chapter 31

THE CYBERANALYST

Sherry Turkle

THE PATTERN-RECOGNIZER (Esther Dyson): Sherry Turkle probably understands better than anyone how people transfer their emotions onto the Net: sometimes they go through the Net to other people, but sometimes they just stop at the Net and start having an emotional involvement with the Net itself. 

Sherry Turkle is a professor of the sociology of science at MIT. She is the author of Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (1995); The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (1984); and Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution (1978).