R.I.P. Leonard Shlain

I hate coming across random obituaries of people I respect or whose work I enjoyed. I knew nothing about Leonard Shlain except what I read on the dust jacket for The Alphabet vs The Goddess, but I found the book to be a nice read - a mix of pop psychology and sociology, neuroscience, mythology, archaeology, and history. It proposes an interesting theory, that society is transitioning from masculine dominated, linear, alphabetic society to a feminine, holistic, image based one.

BoingBoing has a nice tribute up