Steven Kotler is a award-winning journalist, New York Times bestselling author, and co-founder and director of research for the Flow Genome Project..Koltler has written the books "The Rise of Superman," "Abundance," "A Small,Furry Prayer,"...
Steven Kotler is a award-winning journalist, New York Times bestselling author, and co-founder and director of research for the Flow Genome Project..Koltler has written the books "The Rise of Superman," "Abundance," "A Small,Furry Prayer," "West of Jesus," and "The Angle Quickest for Flight." His work has appeared in multiple publications, including The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Wired, Discover, Details and Men's Journal. His second book, a non-fiction work, "West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origin of Belief" goes on sale this June.
Steven Kotler / TruthdigMay 15, 2006
In this summer's most talked-about movie, "A Scanner Darkly," Keanu Reeves stars as an undercover narcotics agent losing his grip on reality in an America that has lost the war on drugs. True, the film is a warning call, but might it also inadvertently channel us toward the very dystopia it is warning against?
This article ran in May, but we're trotting it out again because the movie just hit theaters this week. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
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