"Brilliant!...a eureka moment at the edge of know-ledge...a website that will expand your mind."

"Wonderful reading."

"One of the most interesting stopping places on the Web"

"Brilliant! Stimula-ting reading."

"Today's visions of science tomorrow."

"Fascinating and thought-provoking ...wonderful, inte-lligent."

"Edge.org...a Web site devoted to dis- cussions of cutting edge science."

"Awesome indie newsletter with brilliant contribu-tors."

"Everything is per-mitted, and nothing is excluded from this intellectual game."

"Websites of the year...Inspired Arena...the world's foremost scientific thinkers."

"High concept all the way...the brightest scientists and thinkers ... heady ... deep and refreshing."

" Deliciously crea-tive...the variety
astonishes...intel-lectual skyrockets of stunning brill-iance. Nobody in the world is doing what Edge is doing."

"A marvellous showcase for the Internet, it comes very highly recom-mended."

"Profound, esoteric and outright enter-taining."

"A terrific, thought provoking site."

"...Thoughtful and often surprising ...reminds me of how wondrous our world is." — Bill Gates

"One of the Net's most prestigious, invitation-only free trade zones for the exchange of potent ideas."

"An enjoyable read."

"A-list: Dorothy Parker's Vicious Circle without the food and alcohol ... a brilliant format."

"Big, deep and am-itious questions... breathtaking in scope."

"Has raised elect-ronic discourse on the Web to a whole new level."

"Lively, sometimes obscure and almost always ambitious."

En Route — AirCanada
"Meeting of the Minds" (10/98)

No, the Net is not a cesspool of mindless guttertalk. There are some intellectual gems such as EDGE, a Website that offers the vulgum pecus a peek into an invitation-only mailing list whose contributors include some of the brightest minds in science and technology.

Wired
"The Hot New Medium is ... Email"
(April 1998)

"List publishing is not merely information delivered to your mailbox, it's the devolution of mass media into the hands of everyday people. And its growing faster than the web."
by David S. Bennehum

A-list: Superagent John Brockman recreates Dorothy Parker's Vicious Circle without the food and alcohol....a brilliant format, partly because of who's on the list — Richard Dawkins, Freeman Dyson, David Gelernter, Nathan Myhrvold, and Naomi Wolf, to name a few.

Los Angeles Times
"A Brief History of How the Once-Maligned Nerd Became Cool" (3/30/98)
By Lee Dye

In 1981, Brockman founded the Reality Club, an assortment of movers and shakers from the world of science who traditionally meet in Chinese restaurants and artists' lofts around New York City to ponder the great imponderables of the day. In the most common expression of the third culture, a year ago Brockman started a Web site (http://www.edge.org) to give scientists a forum in which to share their thoughts and their questions with the world at large.

Upside Magazine
"World Domination, Corporate Cubism and Alien Mind Control at Digerati Dinner" (2/23/98)
By Trish Williams

Chronicler of the digerati, John Brockman, handpicked the best of breed at last week's Monterey TED(technology, entertainment, design) conference to attend his yearly soir?e, where technology's philosopher-kings mused on all things Internet, multimedia and business.

Science
"The Third Culture" (2/13/98)
By Kevin Kelly

Brockman's third culture meant a streetwise science culture, one where working scientists communicated directly with lay people, and the lay challenged them back. This was a peerage culture, a peerage that network technology encouraged.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
"E-Mail Messages Of Scientific Stars Are Required Reading In Harvard U. Course" (2/12/98)
by Lisa Guernsey

Some undergraduates at Harvard University are reading the e-mail messages of world-renowned scientists and cultural thinkers this semester as part of an introductory science course.

The New Scientist
Editorial: "Interrogate Yourself" (2/7/98)

Big, deep and ambitious questions — questions that suggest that science is finally edging into the domain of philosophy and religion.....breathtaking in scope. Keep watching The World Question Center.

Suite 101
"The Third Culture" on the EDGE (1/19/98)
By Frederic Giacobazzi

An extraordinary Web site.

Atlantic Unbound
"Web Citation" (1/8/98)

A site that has raised electronic discourse on the Web to a whole new level.... Genuine learning seems to be going on here.