Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite

by John Brockman

Offers profiles of influential individuals involved in the shaping of the internet, telecommunications, and multimedia, and shares their views on the future

Genres: Society, Nonfiction

354 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1996

About the author

John Brockman is an American literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature. He established the Edge Foundation, an organization that brings together leading edge thinkers across a broad range of scientific and technical fields.

He is author and editor of several books, including: The Third Culture (1995); The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years (2000); The Next Fifty Years (2002) and The New Humanists (2003).

He has the distinction of being the only person to have been profiled on Page One of the "Science Times" (1997) and the "Arts & Leisure" (1966), both supplements of The New York Times.

Reviews

[grundoon · Rating 2 out of 5]

I occasionally enjoy dipping into something that one way or another found its way onto my tech shelves some years ago – even if for nothing meatier than the context. This, however, was utterly pointless, then or at any other time: a list of famous tech people I know, how I know them, a few pages of smoothed over interview, a few soundbites of what others on the list think of this person... next. The few stars are for what little original thought managed to filter through both the hubris and the most annoying t-ligatured typeface ever.