Brockman is a bizarre, brilliant, bulldozer of a thinker and a super-agent who has done as much as anyone, anywhere, to shape today's intellectual landscape.

David Gelernter

"McLuhan had pointed out that by inventing electric technology, we had externalized our central nervous systems; that is, our minds. Cage went further to say that we now had to presume that 'there's only one mind, the one we all share.' Cage pointed out that we had to go beyond private and personal mind-sets and understand how radically things had changed. Mind had become socialized.

'We can't change our minds without changing the world,' he said. Mind as a man-made extension became our environment, which he characterized as 'the collective consciousness,' which we could tap into by creating 'a global utilities network'."

JOHN BROCKMAN is the author/editor of nineteen books, including By The Late John Brockman (1969), The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995), Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite (1996) and (with Katinka Matson) How Things Are: A Science Took-Kit for the Mind (1995). A book of critical essays about his early writings, After Brockman, was published about his early writingin 1973. He is founder and CEO of Brockman, Inc., a literary and software agency, President of Edge Foundation, Inc., founder of The Reality Club, and editor and publisher of EDGE, a Website presenting The Third Culture in action.

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