QUÉ ES UN TECNOESCRITOR? [WHAT IS A TECHNOLOGY WRITER?] [1]

"The Shallows" which explores what the Internet is doing to our brains) are clear examples of a profession lacking in these latitudes: the dedicated writer to think of our new state environment, technology and science. They are "tecnoescritores" or scientific writers such as the British biologist Richard Dawkins [4] (The Selfish Gene "), Daniel Dennett [5] (" Darwin's Dangerous Idea "), psychologist Steven Pinker [6] (The Blank Slate), Matt Ridley [7] ("genome"), Malcolm Gladwell ("Blink"), Bill Bryson ("Short History of Nearly Everything"), Brian Greene [8] ("The Elegant Universe"), Michio Kaku ("Physics of the Impossible"), Paul Davies [9] ( "The last three minutes"), and many more as the hypermedia Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time "). Direct descendants of Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman and Stephen Jay Gould [10], is a breed of authors who write and release science laboratories. And, oddly enough-attention-Argentine publishers, they sell many books. It's true: in recent years came over here-very interesting collections, such as barking Science (Siglo XXI), led by Diego Golombek biologist who trains scientists and science communicators to tell beyond a cryptic paper or news article forgettable . But you have to admit, compared to the international market for "literature" are still in the First B. Each in its own way and located in what CP Snow called "third culture" [11] (that bridge between science and literature currently represented by the site Edge.org [12]), the great science writers take a scientific publication, the link with the literature and in doing so take it one floor up