Much of What they told us about science May be wrong??? - Howard Bloom has been called next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Freud, and Buckminster Fuller by Britains Channel4 TV. His other books include The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History (mesmerizing—The Washington Post), Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (reassuring and sobering—The New Yorker) and The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism (an extraordinary book, exhilaratingly-written and masterfully-researched. I couldnt put it down. James Burke) From 1968 to 1988, Bloom did fieldwork in the world of corporations, mass media, and popular culture. As the founder and CEO first of Cloud Studio, Inc., then of The Howard Bloom Organization, Ltd., Bloom worked with companies like Sony, NBC-TV, CBS, Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, EMI, ABC, Gulf and Western, MCA/Universal, Manesmann, Polygram, Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, and Disney. Bloom helped Sony launch its first software operation in the U.S. (Sony Video), helped establish the three films that put the new Disney on the map (Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Ruthless People, and Outrageous Fortune), and advised the strategists putting together a new venture called MTV. He was featured on the cover of Art Direction Magazine and profiled in New York Magazine, which called him the most thorough and efficient publicist in his field. Delta Airlines in-flight magazine went further and called him one of the most powerful people in pop publicity. No one realized he was a scientist in disguise. Blooms writings have appeared in The Washington Post, Wired, Knight-Ridders Financial News Service, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Omni Magazine, New Ideas in Psychology, The Independent Scholar, Entelechy—Mind and Culture, Across Species Comparisons and Psychopathology, PhysicaPlus, ArXiv.org and in two book series: Research in Biopolitics and the Disinformation Companys series of three books: You Are Being Lied To, Everything You Know is Wrong, and Abuse Your Illusions.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:23:03 +0000
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