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Subject: Observer: The Man Who Runs The World's Smartest Website (Sunday, January 8th)
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The Guardian/Observer
THE NEW REVIEW
Sunday, January 8, 2012
THE MAN WHO RUNS THE WORLD'S SMARTEST WEBSITE
Since the mid-1960s John Brockman has been at the cutting edge of ideas. He is a
passionate advocate of both science and the arts, and his website Edge is a salon
for the world's finest minds
John Naughton
To 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
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 description rather understates the reality. More accurate ways
of describing Brockman would be to say that he is a "cultural impresario" or, as
his friend Stewart Brand puts it, an "intellectual enzyme". (Brand goes on
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helpfully to explain that an enzyme is "a biological catalyst - an adroit enabler
of otherwise impossible things".)
PDFs (with photographs) below - click on images to read
Guardian Online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/08/john-brockman-
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