John Seabrook, New Yorker columnist and author of one of the smartest books on contemporary culture, Nobrow (Ad Marginem, 2004), this time has collected essays on genius freaks.
The company turned out to be quite motley: ex-drug addict David Karp, who devoted himself to the search for new fruits (now his compatriots can try white nectarine and durian); Bob Kearns, who has been suing Ford, General Motors and Chrysler for 30 years for stealing his invention — car wipers (he rejected $ 30 million in compensation, the principle is more important). The downshifters who make up their family trees, the sculptor of dinosaurs and the inventor of special effects in the cinema, the manufacturer of the first genetically modified tomato — while seemingly doing not the most obligatory things, they still remain artists of industrial civilization, making it colorful and giving it a human dimension.
UNITED PRESS, 405 p.