John Brockman

John Brockman was an American literary agent and writer (born 1941). He was born at Boston.

John Brockman in brief

Born
1941
Known for
literary agent,writer
Place of birth
Boston

Overview

Born at Boston in 1941.

Catalogued works

48 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1994 to 2007.

The Third Culture. Intelligent Thought. The Next Fifty Years. What Is Your Dangerous Idea? What We Believe But Cannot Prove. Possible Minds. What Should We Be Worried About? Third Culture, dated 1995. Curious Minds. The Last Unknowns : Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life. How Things Are. Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years. WHEN WE WERE KIDS: HOW A CHILD BECOMES A SCIENTIST; ED. BY JOHN BROCKMAN. Excerpt from This Will Make You Smarter : Daniel Kahneman and More. Life. Universe. Thinking. Mind. Culture. What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Last Unknowns. This Will Make You Smarter. This Idea Is Brilliant. Know This. What to Think about Machines That Think. By the Late John Brockman. This Explains Everything. This Will Change Everything. Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? Senin Tehlikeli Fikrin Ne? En Büyük Buluslar Son 2000 Yilin. Merakli Zihinler. Ucuncu Kultur. Zihin. I nuovi umanisti. This Idea Must Die. Life Lib/E. Crock Pot Cookbook 2021. What to Think about Machines That Think Lib/E. Real time. How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? Brockman, John, dated 1994, held by Wellcome Collection. The third culture / by John Brockman., dated [1996,, held by Wellcome Collection. Science at the edge / edited by John Brockman., dated 2004, held by Wellcome Collection. What are you optimistic about? / edited by John Brockman., dated 2007, held by Wellcome Collection. The new humanists : science at the edge / edited by John Brockman., dated [2003], held by Wellcome Collection. Intelligent thought : science versus the intelligent design movement / edited by John Brockman., dated 2006, held by Wellcome Collection. Curious minds : how a child becomes a scientist / edited by John Brockman., dated [2004], held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 24 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

6 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

1841 WILLIAM BROCKMAN to LOCKE, 19 January 1695 (1854), The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke: The Correspondence of John Locke: In Eight Volumes, Vol. 5: Letters Nos. 1702–2198, 1979. 1854 WILLIAM BROCKMAN to LOCKE, 28 February 1695 (1841), The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke: The Correspondence of John Locke: In Eight Volumes, Vol. 5: Letters Nos. 1702–2198, 1979. JOHN S. BROCKMAN, Grass and Forage Science, 1998. Review: What Are You Optimistic About? edited by John Brockman, New Scientist, 2007. Holiday books: This Will Change Everything edited by John Brockman, New Scientist, 2009. Enhanced tritium production in irradiated TiD2 from collisional fusion in the solid-state, Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2026.

Digitised editions and texts

12 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

Legal Letter sent to Random House Regarding Payment (1981) — Internet Archive. What have you changed your mind about? (2009) — Internet Archive. Whole Earth Software Catalog Acknowledgement and Agreement Signed (1984) — Internet Archive. A Pile of Documents Regarding "The Reality Club" — Internet Archive. Culture (2011) — Internet Archive. How Things Are: A Science Tool-Kit for the Mind (1995) — Internet Archive. This Idea Must Die Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress (2015) — Internet Archive. WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA? — Internet Archive. HOW THINGS ARE — Internet Archive. Digerati (1996) — Internet Archive. Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist (2004) — Internet Archive. Re: ABA, 1994 (1994) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 16 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

the recorded working language is English.

Works named in the authority record are Edge Foundation, Inc.

Chronology

  1. 1941John Brockman born at Boston.
  2. 1981Legal Letter sent to Random House Regarding Payment digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 1984Whole Earth Software Catalog Acknowledgement and Agreement Signed digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 1995How Things Are: A Science Tool-Kit for the Mind digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 2009What have you changed your mind about? digitised by Internet Archive.
  6. 2011Culture digitised by Internet Archive.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  • reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q1314332: John Brockman

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