John Brockman is an American literary agent .
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Brockman was born into a Jewish family and raised in Boston [1] . After studying at the Institute of Business Administration. Babson, Columbia University in New York, he became an investment banker [1] , and in the 1960s a multimedia artist. He co-organized the Expanded Cinema Festiva [1] with Jonas Mekas . In 1974, he founded his own company, Brockman, Inc., to specialize as a literary agent in marketing and promoting outstanding scientists of all fields of knowledge who want to publish their own abstracts and want to present their field of knowledge and their way of thinking popular and generally accepted way. Among the authors of Brockman: Richard Dawkins , Stephen Pinker , Alan Gut , Stephen Jay Gould , Jaron Lanier , Mark Hauser , Lee Smolin and David Gelnerter [1] . Brockman became famous thanks to the idea of a "Third Culture", which he preached in his book of the same name.
Brockman is the founder of the Edge Foundation, a website where scientists comment on key research and technology issues.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Georg Diez: Der Strippenzieher, in: Der Spiegel Nr. 47, 17. November 2014, S. 138-140
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- Georg Diez: Der Strippenzieher, in: Der Spiegel Nr. 47, 17. November 2014, S. 138-140.