On the Block with Howard Bloom
\u201cI know a lot of people. A lot. And I ask a lot of prying questions. But I\u2019ve never run into a more intriguing biography than Howard Bloom\u2019s in all my born days.\u201d --Paul Solman, Business and Economics Correspondent, PBS NewsHour Howard Bloom has been called \u201cnext in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein,[and] Freud,\u201d by Britain\u2019s Channel4 TV , \u201cthe next Stephen Hawking\u201d by Gear Magazine, and \u201cThe Buckminster Fuller and Arthur C. Clarke of the new millennium\u201d by Buckminster Fuller\u2019s archivist. Bloom is the author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism, and The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates. And his book Global Brain was the subject of an Office of the Secretary of Defense symposium in 2010, with participants from the State Department, the Energy Department, DARPA, IBM, and MIT.