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Jonah Lehrer is an editor at large for Seed Magazine. His first book is Proust Was A Neuroscientist. Buy it here.

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Technology (The Limits of)

Kottke links to some early reviews of cinema. Needless to say, hyperbole ruled the day. As one critic proclaimed: Photography has ceased to record immobility. It perpetuates the image of movement. When these gadgets are in the hands of the...

Posted on June 6, 2008 11:29 AM • 2 Comments •

Predicting Technology

The transition from basic science to useful technology is so unpredictable. Look, for example, at DNA. Ten years ago, everybody assumed that the payoff of the genetic revolution would arrive in the form of gene therapy. We'd cure disease by...

Posted on October 2, 2007 12:31 PM • 1 Comments •

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