The Digital Landscape: What's Next for News?
Explore the emerging realms of digital territory where news and information reside—or will soon. It’s a place where game playing thrives and augmented reality tugs at possibilities. It’s where video excels, while the appetite for long-form text and the experience of “deep reading” is diminished, and it’s where the allure of multitasking greets the crush of information. Learn how young people negotiate their journey, and travel inside the brain to discover its capacities in the digital realm. Dig deeper into topics covered in the magazine by clicking on the books in our digital library to reveal selected videos, articles, blogs and Web sites.
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"A Big Question: ‘How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?’"
- John BrockmanThe Edge project was inspired by the 1971 failed art experiment entitled “The World Question Center” by the late James Lee Byars, John Brockman’s friend and sometime collaborator. Byars believed that to arrive at an axiology of societal knowledge it was pure folly to go to Widener Library at Harvard and read six million volumes. Instead, he planned to gather the 100 most brilliant minds in the world in a room, lock them behind closed doors, and have them ask each other the questions they were asking themselves. The expected result, in theory, was to be a synthesis of all thought. But it didn’t work out that way. Byars identified his 100 most brilliant minds and called each of them. The result: 70 people hung up on him.
A decade later, Brockman picked up on the idea and founded The Reality Club, which, in 1997, went online, rebranded as Edge.
"A Big Question: ‘How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?’"
- John BrockmanThe Edge project was inspired by the 1971 failed art experiment entitled “The World Question Center” by the late James Lee Byars, John Brockman’s friend and sometime collaborator. Byars believed that to arrive at an axiology of societal knowledge it was pure folly to go to Widener Library at Harvard and read six million volumes. Instead, he planned to gather the 100 most brilliant minds in the world in a room, lock them behind closed doors, and have them ask each other the questions they were asking themselves. The expected result, in theory, was to be a synthesis of all thought. But it didn’t work out that way. Byars identified his 100 most brilliant minds and called each of them. The result: 70 people hung up on him.
A decade later, Brockman picked up on the idea and founded The Reality Club, which, in 1997, went online, rebranded as Edge.
