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John Seabrook is an American journalist who writes about technology and popular culture. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993.

Seabrook graduated from Princeton University in 1981 and received an M.A. in English Literature from Oxford. He began his career writing about business and published in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including Harper', Vanity Fair, GQ, The Nation, The Village Voice, and the Christian Science Monitor. He also wrote three books, Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace (1997), Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture (2000), and Flash of Genius and Other True Stories of Invention (2008). A movie based on his most recent book was released on October 3, 2008, also called Flash of Genius .

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