Real Super Powers

In Seems Like Telepathy I mentioned Derren Brown. Here is a video of him demonstrating a little of what can be accomplished when you've got a photographic memory. He uses a technique called photo reading.

Unfortunately, according to him, one cannot learn to achieve the same results, even though there are courses and seminars on photo reading.

This quote is from an interview featured in the Genii magazine issue from February 2005:
"Because I was just a bit disturbed by, for example, the amount of people that got in touch saying they want to go on photo reading courses after seeing the photo reading piece that I did. And I was having to e-mail these people, through my management, saying that I was kind of using some of that, but there's no way to learn photo-reading so that you'll be able to duplicate that thing. I'm also using all sorts of other techniques to nudge things in my favor, and blah, blah, blah. "

Too bad, but maybe it can be learned, somehow...someday...

Quick! What was the seventeenth word in the quoted selection? Don't look! Don't look!!