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ge, is a salon for the world's finest minds. On the facing page they discuss Marshall McLuhan, elitism and the future of the internet T o say that John Brockman is a literary agent is like saying that David Hockney is a photographer. For while it's true that Hockney has indeed made astonishingly creativ
ke saying that David Hockney is a photographer. For while it's true that Hockney has indeed made astonishingly creative use of photography, and Brockman is indeed a successful literary agent who represents an enviable stable of high- profile scientists and communicators, in both cases the descripti
a passionate advocate of both science and the arts, whose website, Edge, is a salon for the world's finest minds. On the facing page they discuss Marshall McLuhan, elitism and the future of the internet T o say that John Brockman is a literary agent is like saying that David Hockney is a photographer. For
o von Hofmannsthal, Norman 0. Brown, William Shakespeare, E. E. Cummings, Paul Valery, Ezra Pound, Henry Miller. These words belong to the reader. JOHN BROCKMAN EFTA_R1_02124764 EFTA02711248
Miller. These words belong to the reader. JOHN BROCKMAN EFTA_R1_02124764 EFTA02711248
elong to the author anymore than they belong to the people quoted in the book: Norbert Wiener, Karl Lashley, George Kubler, J. Z. Young, John Lilly, Marshall McLuhan, Stewart Brand, Heinz von Foerster, Edward T. Hall, Alfred North Whitehead, W. Grey Walter, Kenneth Sayre, Rene Descartes, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Niels
FOREWORD: EVER BROCKMAN SINCE Mt 1960s, John BroclunanaTms pioneering activities have been diverse and multidirectional, marked by a fearlessness and fluidity of thought.
methods. Out of his experiences in the avant-garde art world of New York, BrockmanaTMs writings were quickly evolving. His first book, By The Late John Brockman (1969), was introduced in 1968 as part of a six-evening avant-garde program at the Poetry Center at the 92nd St Y in New York. Preceding and followi
is highly experimental, but also its format and layout. Each page contains a single paragraph comprised partly of quotes from works by figures from Marshall McLuhan to Ludwig Wittgenstein, Samuel Beckett and E. E. Cummings, that is disconnected from its predecessor. A front-page review in the San Francisco Revi
is a salon for the world's finest minds. On the facing page they discuss Marshall McLuhan, elitism and the future of the internet T . o say that John Brockman is a literary agent is like saying that David Hockney is a photographer. For while it's true that Hockney has indeed made astonishingly creativ
ke saying that David Hockney is a photographer. For while it's true that Hockney has indeed made astonishingly creative use of photography, and Brockman is indeed a successful literary agent who represents all enviable stable of high- profile scientists and communicators, in both cases the descript
a passionate advocate of both science and the arts, whose website, Edge, is a salon for the world's finest minds. On the facing page they discuss Marshall McLuhan, elitism and the future of the internet T . o say that John Brockman is a literary agent is like saying that David Hockney is a photographer.
Penguin Press National Pub date: February 19, 2019 Title: DEEP THINKING Subtitle: 7wenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI By: John Brockman Length: 90,000 words Headline: Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have b
ener’s words again. In Deep Thinking, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us. The fruit of the long history of Brockman’s profound engagement with the most important scientific minds who have been thinking about AI—from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to Frank Wilczek
n ongoing seminar about media, communications, art, music, and philosophy that focused on Cage’s interest in the ideas of Wiener, Claude Shannon, and Marshall McLuhan, all of whom had currency in the New York art circles in which I was then moving. In particular, Cage had picked up on McLuhan’s idea that by inventi
Penguin Press National Pub date: February 19, 2019 Title: DEEP THINKING Subtitle: 7wenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI By: John Brockman Length: 90,000 words Headline: Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have b
ener’s words again. In Deep Thinking, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us. The fruit of the long history of Brockman’s profound engagement with the most important scientific minds who have been thinking about AI—from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to Frank Wilczek
n ongoing seminar about media, communications, art, music, and philosophy that focused on Cage’s interest in the ideas of Wiener, Claude Shannon, and Marshall McLuhan, all of whom had currency in the New York art circles in which I was then moving. In particular, Cage had picked up on McLuhan’s idea that by inventi
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