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John Brockman
The founder and publisher of the on-line science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of THIS WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING, WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?, WHAT WE BELIEVE BUT CANNOT PROVE. He is the CEO of the literary agency Brockman Inc. and lives in New York City. show more



The founder and publisher of the on-line science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of THIS WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING, WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?, WHAT WE BELIEVE BUT CANNOT PROVE. He is the CEO of the literary agency Brockman Inc. and lives in New York City.

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John Brockman's Books
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works - John Brockman, Susan Blackmore, Rebecca Goldstein, James J. O'Donnell, Paul Steinhardt, Shing-Tung Yau, Frank Wilczek, Thomas Metzinger, Sean Carroll, Steven Pinker, Jonathan Gottschall, David G. Myers, Matt Ridley, Armand Marie Leroi, Gerd Gigerenzer, Martin J. Rees, Ri What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable - John Brockman, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty - John Brockman, Ian McEwan Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future - John Brockman What Should We Be Worried About?: The Hidden Threats Nobody Is Talking about (and False Fears Everyone Is Distracted By) - John Brockman This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future - John Brockman Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction - John Brockman This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress - John Brockman What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything - John Brockman, Brian Eno What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better - John Brockman Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science - John Brockman Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist - John Brockman What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence - John Brockman What to Think about Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence - Brockman John Science at the Edge: Conversations with the Leading Scientific Thinkers of Today - John Brockman Science, Mind And Cosmos - John Brockman, Katinka Matson, William H. Calvin, Paul Davies, Stephen Jay Gould, W. Daniel Hillis, Steve Jones, Lee Smolin My Einstein: Essays by Twenty-four of the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy - John Brockman What to Think About Machines That Think:... What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence - John Brockman, Tbd The Pocket Calculator Game Book #2 - Edw... The Pocket Calculator Game Book #2 - Edwin Schlossberg, John Brockman Excerpt from This Will Make You Smarter: Daniel Kahneman and More: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking - John Brockman
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This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know - John Brockman
Science at the Edge: Conversations with the Leading Scientific Thinkers of Today - John Brockman
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Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science - John Brockman
Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos - John Brockman
What to Think About Machines That Think:... What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence - John Brockman, Tbd
What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence - John Brockman
What Are You Optimistic About? - John Brockman
This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress - John Brockman
Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos - John Brockman
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Elentarri's Book Blog
Elentarri's Book Blog rated it 9 years ago
text Life edited by John Brockman
John Brockman has collected 18 interviews, commissioned essays, and transcribed talks from the online science salon Edge.org that deal with biology, genetics, anthropology and environmental science. The majority of the articles were well written, self-contained, covered interesting topics and will ...
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Elentarri's Book Blog
Elentarri's Book Blog rated it 9 years ago
text What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
1 StarMixed bag of incredibly short "chapters" or rather opinion essays by a variety of well-known scientists and other specialists (not necessarily in the robotics field). Some essays where interesting, others a bit vague and philosophical. Stuffing 186 essays on a similar subject into one books ...
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Tolle Lege!.
Tolle Lege!. rated it 9 years ago
text What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
I loathed this book. The moment I saw the title I bought the book and made it my next read. I love books on or about thinking machines and intelligence. I've listened to three of the other series of essays edited by Brockman, and in general I found them satisfying much as I find a good Las Vegas buf...
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spocksbro
spocksbro rated it 10 years ago
text Beware of Arrogance! Retire Nothing!
The problem with books of this nature is that either the "death of an idea" is such a no-brainer that it doesn't deserve an essay or it's the bete noire of the author. For example, in this volume one can find essays that call for the final interment of String Theory alongside others that as vigorous...
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Tolle Lege!.
Tolle Lege!. rated it 10 years ago
text This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
This book was a lot like the TED conferences. While you're watching them you think they're the most brilliant thing you've ever seen and just wonder why you didn't come up with thinking about the problem that way on your own. But, when it's over you start to think maybe that wasn't worth my time a...
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