Andrew Smart Biography
Andrew Smart is the author of Autopilot: The Art and Science of Doing Nothing which explores what our brains are doing when we are idle. The book challenges the current cult of productivity and argues that creativity and insight require idleness.
Autopilot has been translated into four languages and has been written about at CNN, Forbes, The Independent, Slate, The New Statesman and many foreign publications. Mr. Smart’s writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Switch & Shift and Quartz. He has also published several papers in academic journals.
Mr. Smart has a B.S. and M.S. degrees in cognitive science from Lund University in Sweden. He has worked as a research scientist at New York University and Honeywell Aerospace. His interests comprise the benefits of noise for cognition, consciousness and idleness. He currently does research in the area of human-computer interaction.
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