Copyright © 1995 by John Brockman
All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.
Originally published by Simon & Schuster 1995
First Touchstone Edition 1996
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brockman, John, date.
The Third Culture: Scientists on the Edge / by John Brockman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ).
1. Scientists — 20th century — Interviews. 2. Intellectuals — 20th century — Interviews. 3. Science and the humanities. I. Title.
Q141.B76 1995
500—dc2095-83
CIPISBN: 0-684-80359-3
ISBN: 0-684-82344-6 (Pbk.)
The lines from "Since Feeling Is First" are reprinted from Complete Poems: 1904-1962 by E.E. Cummings; edited by George J. Firmage; by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation. Copyright © 1926, 1954, 1991 by the Trustees for the E.E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1985 by George James Firmage.
AS AUTHOR:
By the Late John Brockman
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Afterwords
Digerati
AS EDITOR:
About Bateson
Speculations
Doing Science
Ways of Knowing
Creativity
How Things Are
I first published a brief essay about the idea of an emerging third culture in September 1991, in my newsletter EDGE (#3). An extended version of the essay was later published by the Los Angeles Times, The New Statesman, and the Copenhagen daily newspaper Information.
Several people made helpful comments on the essay. I wish to thank Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel C. Dennett, Russell Jacoby, Stewart Brand, and David Shipley.
I am grateful to Judy Herrick, who for the past three years has presented me with thousands of pages of accurate transcriptions. I also want to thank my line editor, Sara Lippincott, for her time, effort, diligence, and valuable suggestions. And to Bob Asahina, my editor at Simon & Schuster, I express my appreciation for a perceptive reading of the manuscript and for his friendship.
A number of friends have read and commented on drafts of the manuscript. I would like to thank Wim Coleman, Pat Perrin, Clifford Stoll, Howard Rheingold, Stewart Brand, and Kevin Kelly.
Finally, special thanks and appreciation to Katinka Matson and our son, Max Brockman, for their patience and support.
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