"i really thought there was just like so more that i was missing, and if i could possibly see it, it would be such a huge positive thing," he says. His family wasn't enthusiastic at all about the idea of getting involved in technology. "I imagined that i'm going to look at those faces again and I'm going to know every single one of em."
John Elder Robison is a gifted sound engineer whose rare ability to understand machines propelled him to work with the likes of Kiss and Diana Ross. But the one thing he always felt was lacking was his ability to understand people emotionally. In an effort to see if he could change that, he volunteered to participate in an experimental brain study.
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