John Brockman (born 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature. He founded the Edge Foundation, an organization aimed to bring together people working at the edge of a broad range of scientific and technical fields.
"Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time." [1]
"Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody." [2]
(1995) Beyond the Scientific Revolution ISBN 0684823446
(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. ISBN 978-0688149512
(2002) Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century ISBN 0375713425
(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. ISBN 0375422919
(2006) Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty ISBN 0-06-084181-8
(2006) Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement ISBN 0-307-27722-4
(2007) Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable ISBN 0061214957
(2007) Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better ISBN 0061436933
(2009) Ideas That Will Shape the Future (with Patrick Bateson, Oliver Morton , Stephen Schneider, Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, K. Eric Drexler, among others) ISBN 978-0061899676