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Lyndon N. Smith

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Born
in Stroud, The United Kingdom
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Genre
Science, Nonfiction, Humor and Comedy

Influences
Carl Sagan, Arthur Conan Doyle, Gene Roddenberry

Member Since
July 2013


Lyndon N. Smith has a strong interest in science and technology, and a particular fascination with developments in physics and engineering that can have potentially revolutionary effects on the way we live. He feels that scientific and technological developments of recent decades have been less dramatic than was expected, say, seventy years ago and that an investigation into why this is the case and what we can do about it is well overdue. He believes that one way to increase the accessibility of science is to employ an informal style, and to make liberal use of quotations and allusions to well-known figures from popular culture. This is what he has aimed to do with his new book. His intention is to make you wonder why we don't hear more ab ...more

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