约翰·布罗克曼

约翰·布罗克曼（John Brockman，1941年2月16日—）是一位文学经纪人，以及专门研究科学文学的作家。他成立了前沿基金会，该组织聚集了大批科技领域的前沿思想家。

布罗克曼出生在马萨诸塞州波士顿一个贫穷的爱尔兰天主教徒聚居区，是波兰犹太裔移民。他在C·P·斯诺“两种文化”的基础上，引入了“第三种文化”，该文化由“经验世界中的那些科学家和其他思想家”组成，“通过他们的工作及写作说明文，正在取代传统的知识分子，展现我们生活更深层的含义，重新定义我们是谁，以及我们是什么。”

在20年间，他领导了一个科学沙龙，每年向众多知名科学家提出一个问题，并以书籍形式发表他们的答案，他决定在2018年象征性地关闭该沙龙。

他是Edge.org的编辑。

与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的交往

在2019年，有人说布罗克曼是金融家杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的“智囊”，这给布罗克曼的前沿基金会带来一笔固定费用。爱泼斯坦以未成年人性交易的罪名被捕，并在等待审判时死亡。

布罗克曼在TED大会上举办的著名文学晚宴，使爱泼斯坦得以和科学家、创业者和其他技术亿万富翁交往。

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“从某种意义上说，传统的美国知识分子越来越反动，而且常常骄傲地（且错误地）无视我们时代许多真正重要的知识成就。”

“纵观历史，只有极少数人为所有人进行了认真的思考。”

John Brockman (born February 16, 1941) is an American literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature. He established the Edge Foundation, an online magazine exploring scientific and intellectual ideas. He was also closely connected to Jeffrey Epstein.

Early life

Brockman, born to Austrian immigrants of Jewish descent, grew up in Dorchester, which was a poor Irish Catholic enclave in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was a broker in the wholesale flower market in Boston, to hustle sales. Expanding on C. P. Snow's "two cultures", he introduced the "third culture" consisting of "those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are." Brockman attended Babson Institute (now Babson College) and earned an MBA from the Columbia Business School in 1963.

Career

In 1968, Brockman organized an advertising campaign for the Monkees' film Head. Brockman's visage appeared on posters which did not mention the group, as well as in the film itself. Brockman later made a cameo appearance in the group's 1997 TV special, Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees.

Brockman led a scientific salon for 20 years, asking an annual question to a host of renowned scientists and publishing their answers in book form, which he decided to symbolically close down in 2018.

He is an editor of Edge.org. He represented many famous scientists, including Daniel Kahneman, Steven Pinker, and Richard Dawkins.

Association with Jeffrey Epstein

In an interview with Prince Andrew on November 17, 2019, BBC reporter Emily Maitlis mentioned that both Andrew and John Brockman attended a dinner at child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion to celebrate Epstein’s release from prison for charges which stemmed from at least one decade of child sex trafficking. Brockman's name was also found in Epstein's private jet log.

Andrew’s presence at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion was corroborated by Brockman himself, in emails published in an October 2019 New Republic report. The story suggested that Brockman was closely connected to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier who died in August 2019 while again awaiting trial on charges related to sex trafficking.

Brockman's literary dinners, held during the TED Conference, were, for a number of years after Epstein's conviction, almost entirely funded by Epstein as documented in his annual tax filings. This allowed Epstein to mingle with scientists, startup icons and tech billionaires.

Brockman, through dinners and salons hosted by the Edge Foundation, was also responsible for making the first introductions between Epstein and various scientists, including Seth Lloyd and Lisa Randall. Steven Pinker stated that he was convinced to fly on Epstein's private jet by Brockman.

Following the 2026 release of the expanded Epstein files, social media posts highlighted a 2018 email authored by Brockman in which he referenced "a dozen one-year-olds." According to Brockman's family, the email was referring to his granddaughter's first birthday party.