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John Brockman

Born

in Boston, The United States

February 16, 1941

Genre

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John Brockman is an American literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature. He established the Edge Foundation, an organization that brings together leading edge thinkers across a broad range of scientific and technical fields.

He is author and editor of several books, including: The Third Culture (1995); The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years (2000); The Next Fifty Years (2002) and The New Humanists (2003).

He has the distinction of being the only person to have been profiled on Page One of the "Science Times" (1997) and the "Arts & Leisure" (1966), both supplements of The New York Times. ...more

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	This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking 3.79 avg rating — 7,072 ratings — published 2012 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works 3.66 avg rating — 2,828 ratings — published 2013 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty 3.65 avg rating — 1,844 ratings — published 2005 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress 3.51 avg rating — 1,338 ratings — published 2015 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night 3.44 avg rating — 1,277 ratings — published 2014 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable 3.70 avg rating — 1,036 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction 3.69 avg rating — 986 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI 3.78 avg rating — 818 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future 3.72 avg rating — 758 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know 3.83 avg rating — 652 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Edge Question (13 books)
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John Brockman (Editor)

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Quotes by John Brockman (?)

“Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.”
― John Brockman

tags: geniuses, history, minority, scientists, serious, thinking

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“Every aspect of life is an experiment that can be better understood if it is perceived in that way.”
― John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

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“If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research.”
― John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

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The Atheist Book Club: August-September Group Read: Call to Vote (ends July 28)

Note: A shorter 2nd voting round will be created if a specific title is not clearly chosen by participants, or if specific titles are difficult to buy/borrow (at the discretion of the moderators' team)

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens

22 votes, 29.7%

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

10 votes, 13.5%

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris

5 votes, 6.8%

On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt by Richard Carrier

5 votes, 6.8%

Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life by Louise M. Antony

5 votes, 6.8%

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins

4 votes, 5.4%

Radical: My Journey from Islamist Extremism to a Democratic Awakening by Maajid Nawaz

4 votes, 5.4%

Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding by Steven K. Green

4 votes, 5.4%

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett

3 votes, 4.1%

Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy

3 votes, 4.1%

Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction by John Brockman

3 votes, 4.1%

Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue by Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz

2 votes, 2.7%

Everybody Is Wrong About God by James A. Lindsay

2 votes, 2.7%

Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef

1 vote, 1.4%

Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

1 vote, 1.4%

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