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John Brockman

Autor(a) de What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty

47+ Works 8,065 Membros 150 Críticas 3 Favorited

About the Author

Inclui os nomes: John Brockman, Jhon Brockman, John ed. Brockman, John ed. Brockman, Mr. John Brockman, John Editor Brockman, Брокман Джон

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Obras por John Brockman

What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty (2006) — Editor — 807 exemplares
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Editor — 798 exemplares
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Editor — 630 exemplares
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works (Edge Question Series) (2013) — Editor — 605 exemplares
The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century (2002) — Editor — 385 exemplares
This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress (Edge Question Series) (2015) — Editor — 370 exemplares
The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995) 345 exemplares
What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night (Edge Question Series) (2014) — Editor — 299 exemplares
Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement (2006) — Editor — 274 exemplares
What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better (2007) — Editor — 270 exemplares
This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future (2009) — Editor — 269 exemplares
Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction (Best of Edge Series) (2013) — Editor — 239 exemplares
Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future (2011) — Editor — 235 exemplares
The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003) — Editor — 230 exemplares
What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything (2009) — Editor — 226 exemplares
Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist (2004) 197 exemplares
What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence (2013) — Editor — 163 exemplares
How Things Are: A Science Tool-Kit for the Mind (1995) — Editor — 152 exemplares
This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know (2018) — Editor — 151 exemplares
Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI (2019) 149 exemplares
The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos (2014) — Editor — 141 exemplares
Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments (2017) — Editor — 127 exemplares
The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years (2000) — Editor — 105 exemplares
Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science (2016) — Editor — 102 exemplares
The Mind: Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Personality, and Happiness (Best of Edge Series) (2010) — Editor — 95 exemplares
Digerati: Encounters With the Cyber Elite (1996) 89 exemplares
Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology (2011) — Editor — 86 exemplares
Science at the Edge: Conversations with the Leading Scientific Thinkers of Today (2004) — Editor — 83 exemplares
Speculations: The Reality Club (1988) — Editor — 74 exemplares
My Einstein: Essays by Twenty-four of the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy (2006) — Editor — 59 exemplares
Science, Mind and Cosmos (Phoenix 60p Paperbacks) (1996) — Editor — 55 exemplares
The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of… (2019) 50 exemplares
Doing Science (Reality Club) (1989) — Editor — 45 exemplares
Ways of Knowing (Reality Club) (1991) 31 exemplares
About Bateson (1977) 23 exemplares
Real Time (1973) 22 exemplares
Creativity (Reality Club) (1993) 21 exemplares
Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein & Frankenstein (1986) 20 exemplares
By the late John Brockman (1969) 13 exemplares
Real time 2 (A Doubleday Anchor original) (1973) 6 exemplares
Afterwords (1973) 5 exemplares
Life: What A Concept! (2009) 5 exemplares
Pearling Days: The Pearling Voyage of the Sarah to the North West and Kimberley in 1880 and 1881, with an Appendix on… (2010) 4 exemplares
Brain vs Machine: Human Ideas on the Age of Intelligent Machines 4 exemplares
Excerpt from This Will Make You Smarter 3 exemplares
37, by John Brockman (1970) 2 exemplares
John Brockman, TSSF Minister Provincial 2011-2014 1 exemplar
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Teaching for Intelligence (1999) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1941-02-16
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locais de residência
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Educação
California State University, Chico (MA)
Ocupações
literary agent
author
editor
Organizações
Edge Foundation

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This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape… por John Brockman
A cheap idea but lots of prestigious contributors. Worth reviewing now 2020 to embarrass the original authors.
 
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yates9 | 5 outras críticas | Feb 28, 2024 |
The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of… por John Brockman
Very likely completely off but stimulating ideas. Lots of different authors so quality varies.
 
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yates9 | 8 outras críticas | Feb 28, 2024 |
Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI por John Brockman
There are some very good nuggets but it feels that the package is less than the sum of its parts because of the heterogeneous comparisons.

I think generally unproductive to read as a whole book - very interesting as micro biographies of individuals ideas separately.
 
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yates9 | 3 outras críticas | Feb 28, 2024 |
Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology,… por John Brockman
Lots of interesting science in the articles. But that also means some of them are a bit opaque. (And from my own personal biases, there wasn't enough botany.)
 
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Treebeard_404 | 1 outra crítica | Jan 23, 2024 |
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Estatísticas

Obras
47
Also by
1
Membros
8,065
Popularidade
#3,003
Avaliação
½ 3.5
Críticas
150
ISBN
251
Línguas
13
Marcado como favorito
3

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