John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website. To say that John Brockman is a literary agent is like saying that David Hockney is a photographer.
For while it's true that Hockney has indeed made astonishingly creative use of photography, and Brockman is indeed a successful literary agent who represents an enviable stable of high-profile scientists and communicators, in both cases the description rather understates the reality. More accurate ways of describing Brockman would be to say that he is a "cultural impresario" or, as his friend Stewart Brand puts it, an "intellectual enzyme".
(Brand goes on helpfully to explain that an enzyme is "a biological catalyst – an adroit enabler of otherwise impossible things".) In Pictures. Information for the World's Business Leaders - Forbes.com. Home - Breaking SA and World News, Sports, Business, Entertainment and more.