Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

by Kelly Weinersmith

the nasal cycle. You already know about it intuitively, but probably haven’t considered it—at any given time, most of your breathing is through one “active” nostril. Your nostrils alternate which of them is active throughout the day, typically cycling every two to eight hours.

it is a little-known fact that there exists a vaccine for Lyme disease. It was pulled off the market because a small subpopulation complained of arthritislike symptoms.

But say you don’t just want to fix problems—you want to make a healthy brain better. That’s easy. Exercise, eat right, lower your stress, and study harder. Nah, just kidding. Can we improve your lazy-ass brain with computers? The answer is maybe.

Most of the people we talked to in this book aren’t famous—they’re working academics like Kelly or deep, probing thinkers, also like Kelly.