Scanner Tribe

If you were to read about a man whose “interests were so broad, and he was so often compelled by new subjects, that he usually failed to finish what he started”. and  who was “notoriously unreliable at completing commissioned works.” Would you be thinking something like: “What a loser! No way could he be successful. [...]

Scanners want to taste everything. They love to learn about the structure of a flower, and they love to learn about the theory of music. And the adventures of travel. And the tangle of politics. To scanners the universe is a treasure house full of a million works of art, and life is hardly long [...]