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Upside
1999 UPSIDE Elite 100
November 14, 1999
#97
He's one of the best networkers, collectors and people promotors
out there. His books and Edge Web site (www.edge.org) let him
voice his belief in technology as popular culture for masses yearning
to learn.
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Wired
"AGENT PROVOCATEUR"
"John Brockman - literary impresario, idea
guy, brat - is on a mission to force book publishing to accept
its digital destiny."
By Warren St. John - (September 1999)
"Charisma gets you shot," Brockman says
as he steps awkwardly over a puddle. "Nobody bothers to shoot
bores. I like to say I'm 'post-interesting.'"
"You're not interesting?"
"Not not-interesting!" he snaps. "Post-interesting!
Interesting doesn't pay. Well, it pays once, but not twice. I
used to be interesting. I was, like, the It Boy. Being so interesting
- well, it's not so interesting."
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Guardian Unlimited
August 22, 1999
John Naughton's favourite websites
The Edge
www.edge.org A terrific, thought-provoking site put together by
John Brockman and friends. |
Costco Connection
TECHNOLOGY - BILL GATES
"List of greatest inventions reflects a wondrous
world" (July 1999 • Volume 14 • Number 7)
"....a fascinating survey of intellectual and creative wonders
of the world.....The entire list of nominated inventions is posted
on the Internet at www.edge.org. Reading them reminds me of how
wondrous our world is."
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CRAC: Creative Room for Art and Computing
"Brockman's Taste for Science - or How to Enterntain
the World's Smartest People"
by Hans Ulrich Obrist - (June 1999)
Edge is the electronic iteration of the Reality Club which started
in 1980, which in a sense formalized what I did at these dinners.
It celebrates thinking smart versus the anesthesiology of wisdom.
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Netscape Open Directory >
Internet > Cyberspace > Culture
  They say "Edge Foundation,
Inc., was established in 1988 as an outgrowth of a group known as
The Reality Club. Its informal membership includes of some of the
most interesting minds in the world.", and they're NOT kidding.
Outstanding presentations of dialogues, articles, and a virtual
certainty that the person behind the words can and does THINK. Highly
Recommended. |
New Media
FRONT RUNNERS: John Brockman Interviewed by Richard Landry
(May, 1999)
"Most of the people who are doing things on the Internet are
interested in something called "everybody." They want to create
some kind of monopolistic situation where you turn on your computer
and type in your name, and it becomes their property. That's the
antithesis of what the Internet provides in the way of possibilities." |
Time Out New York
"Mind meld" By Tom Samiljan (April 8-15, 1999 Issue
No. 185)
"Such answers, along with 600-odd postings on the same topic
from visitors to Edge's discussion area (run separately by New York-based
e-zine Feed at www.feedmag.com), prove that shopping and fucking
are hardly the only reasons people go online." |
Scientific American
"THE ELITE INVENTIONS" (March, 1999)
[FROM THE EDITORS]: "The editor and literary agent John Brockman
recently challenged the salon of scientists that he hosts on his
EDGE Web site by asking, "What is the most important invention in
the past two thousand years?" Luckily, my job buys me admission
to that on-line gathering and the chance to kibitz with the professionals."
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— John Rennie, EDITOR IN CHIEF |
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Upside.com
"Restaurant Owner Buys TED" (2/24/99)
By David Bunnell
Monterey, Calif.'s delectable Cibo Ristorante Italiano was packed like
sardines for John Brockman's annual Billionaires' Dinner at the
Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) Conference last week.
Of course, there aren't enough billionaires on the entire planet
to fill up the spacious dinning room at Cibo, but Upside Today
counted six of them, and for every billionaire there was a gaggle
of famous artists, writers, technologists, entrepreneurs and the
like.
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Asahi Shimbun
"What Is The Greatest Invention? The Argument Goes On...."By
Toshihiro Yamanaka (New York, February 3rd) — Page One —
(2/3/99)
Edge
hits the front page of Japan's leading newspaper
"What is the greatest invention (innovation) man has ever
made? Democracy? Mozart? A U.S. writer posed a question —
"What is the most important invention/innovation made in the last
2,000 years?", and more than a hundred renowned US and European
natural scientists, including Novel prize winners, started an
argument on the Internet. Their responses included "reading glasses
for the elderly", or "the eraser". And the arguments continue."
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Bill Gates: New York Times Column
"Contemplating the Wonders of the World"
By Bill Gates — New York Times Syndicate (1/27/99)
Recently, the author and literary agent John Brockman posed the
question, "What is the most important invention in the past 2000
years?" He received thoughtful and often surprising answers from
more than 100 leading thinkers, a fascinating survey of intellectual
and creative wonders of the world.....The entire list of nominated
inventions is posted on the Internet at www.edge.org. Reading them
reminds me of how wondrous our world is. |
Silicon Alley Reporter
"Silicon Alley Reporter 100: New York's top Internet Industry
Executives" (Issue 201/99)
#32 Edge Foundation: Literary agent and author John Brockman is
the ubernetworker: His meetings and e-mail list feature some of
the biggest names in the industry. Bottom Line: Brockman is at the
Center of Multiple Revolution. Predictions: More Super Salons, Online
and Off, as well as Blocbuster Book Deals
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Wired News
"Top-Level Think Tank Goes Public:
John Brockman's invitation-only salon for scientific thinkers
opens a public forum on Feed" (1/7/99)
By Steve Silberman
One of the Net's most prestigious, invitation-only free-trade
zones for the exchange of potent ideas is opening its doors. A
little. .....Starting Thursday, two or three selected dialogs
a month at Edge -- founded in 1996 by author and literary agent
John Brockman -- will be open for public reading and discussion
in a special area on Feed.
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Die Zeit
"Brainstorming In The Club Of Thinkers" (1/7/99)
(Partial, rough English
Translation)
By Ulrich Schnabel und Urs Willmann
Could one inspire German scientists for such a brainstorming?
Hardly. In German it is already difficult to find a good translation
for this neural activity, leading to fantasy an fun. Brainstorming:
"procedure to find the best solution of a problem by collecting
spontaneous incidents (of the coworkers)", torments itself the
Duden, the leading German dictionary. You can imagine the result.
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ABCNEWS.COM
"What Changed the World? Suggestions for Top Inventions"
(1/7/99)
By Lee Dye
That question was presented on Thanksgiving Day to Nobel laureates
and other heavy thinkers by New York author and literary agent John
Brockman. Brockman, who presides over an eclectic gathering of scientists
and science buffs, started publishing the answers this week on the
group's Web site. More than 100 participants have taken the bait
so far, and their answers are as varied, and in some cases as strange,
as the participants themselves.....This is not a group that accepts
limitations gladly. Some fudged on the dates. Some eschewed the
notion of an invention as some sort of gadget, opting instead for
such things as the development of the scientific method, mathematics
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FEED
"The Mother of All Inventions: Richard Dawkins, Stewart Brand,
Joseph Traub and others answer the question: What was the most important
invention of the past two thousand years?" (1/5/99)
This special feature marks the first collaboration between FEED and Edge, John Brockman's invitation-only Internet forum, where hundreds
of the world's leading scientists and thinkers share their thoughts
on issues ranging from the meaning of numbers to genetics to affirmative
action. Readers can visit the Edge site for even more nominations,
and an post their own suggestions in the Loop. — The Editors
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Salon
"What's the Mother of All Inventions" (1/5/99)
By Scott Rosenberg
The list makes for an enjoyable read — if you can get over
the participants' utter inability to remain within the question's
2000-year bounds. Suggesting that the most important invention
of this era is the spirit of rebellion against arbitrary rules.
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World News Tonight — ABC-TV News
Comments by Peter Jennings (1/4/99) |
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Newsweek
"The Power of Big Ideas" (1/11/99; pp 56-7)
By Sharon Begley
Was the light bulb more important than the pill? An online gathering
of scientists nominates the most important inventions of the past
2,000 years. Some of their choices might surprise you. Related
Audio - By David Alpern
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The Wall Street Journal (Subscription Required)
"The Nominees for Best Invention Of the Last Two Millennia Are
. . ." (1/4/99; Front page — 2nd Section)
By David Bank
John Brockman is the premier literary agent of the digerati, so
when he asked 1,000 scientists and other techno-thinkers to suggest
the most important invention of the past 2,000 years, the responses
sounded a lot like proposals for yet another millennial book.
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The Daily Telegraph
"The Pill and the Birth of Invention:
From Hay and Mozart to the Internet and clocks, scientists nominatre
man's major achievements" (1/4/99)
says Roger Highfield
Edge (http://www.edge.org) is his "digital salon"
in which Mr Brockman stimulates on-line discussions and debate
among scientists, science writers and the "digerati", writers
who discourse on digital technologies.
"Some of the most memorable conversations I've had over the years are
concerned with invention, including technological innovations
as well as conceptual realisations," said Brockman.
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DaveNet
DaveNet
"Welcome to 1999!" (1/4/99)
By Dave Winer
Congratulations to John Brockman and the people at edge.org. This
is an incredible source of new thoughts. I highly recommend it
to DaveNet readers.....Sites like www.edge.org show what
can be done when there's moderation and thoughtfulness and a little
bit of editing. We can learn from each other. The world is not
filled with bullshit. There are interesting new ideas, and new
perspectives on old ideas
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