Tell me what you think of when you read the word inventor. (If Professor Jack Gallant of Berkeley, Calif., were here and you were in his fMRI machine, he could read your mind and tell you himself. But more of him anon.) I'll tell you what I think of: a little guy with white hair and a white lab coat from an old Disney cartoon. He's tinkering with an old-fashioned computer-you can tell it's a computer because it has a lightbulb sticking out of it. He looks like Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future.
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