The Frozen Future of Nonfiction

Reviewed by Seth Mnookin:

hy The Net Matters: How the Internet Will Save Civilization. By David Eagleman, Canongate Books, 2010. (For iPad)

Unless you landed at Download the Universe with the mistaken impression that it's a new torrent aggregator, chances are you're already familiar with David Eagleman, the 40-year-old Baylor College of Medicine neuroscientist/author/futurist. Perhaps you're one of the millions of people around the world who was dazzled by Sum, Eagleman's breathtaking, oftentimes brilliant, collection of short stories about the afterlife--or perhaps it was Incognito, Eagleman's exploration of the unconscious, that caught your eye. (It's not everyday, after all, that a pop-sci book pulls off the tricky balancing act of simultaneously appealing to the cognoscenti and the hoi polloi.)

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 27, 2012 1:36 AM
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