Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite

by John Brockman

From August 1995 through April 1996, John Brockman recorded conversations with 36 of the most important architects and developers of today's cyberspace. Those conversations have been condensed into this book, as Brockman's "digerati" discuss their work, their visions, and each other. We readers get the joy of listening to these fascinating people speak--sometimes from their well-polished soapboxes and sometimes with their guards down. Many of these people we know from their writings, but there's a fresh rhythm and excitement to their words when they come from their mouths instead of their word processors.

Genres: Society, Nonfiction

Paperback

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.