John Seabrook is a journalist who writes about technology and popular culture. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993 and is the author of Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace, Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing and the Marketing of Culture, and Flash of Genius and Other True Stories of Invention. A feature film based on Flash of Genius was released in 2008, starring Greg Kinnear and Lauren Graham. His newest book is The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory. John Seabrook was in Seattle to speak at Elliott Bay Books.