John Brockman

John Brockman is a literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature. He founded the Edge Foundation, an organization aimed to bring together people working at the edge of a broad range of scientific and technical fields. With a broad career spanning the fields of art, science, books, software and the Internet. In 1960 he established the bases for "intermedia kinetic environments" in art, theatre and commerce, while consulting for clients such as General Electric, Columbia Pictures, The Pentagon, The White House... 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.

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When you walk through an airport-security portal, you’re walking through a rapidly changing magnetic field. The laws of physics dictate that if you put a conducting material in a changing magnetic field, electric currents will arise, and those electric currents will create a secondary magnetic field. This secondary field is often referred to as the induced magnetic field, because it is induced by the primary field of the portal. Within the portal are detectors that can sense when an induced field is present. When they do, the alarm goes off, and you’re whisked over to the special search line.
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World War I was the first mechanized war, the Second World War could be considered the first struggle based around communication technologies. Unlike previous conflicts, there was heavy utilization of radio communication among military forces.
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The field of cryptography advanced quickly, in order to keep messages secret and hidden from adversaries. Also, for the first time in combat, radar was used to detect and track aircraft, thereby surpassing conventional visual capabilities that ended on the horizon.

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