It is easy to talk about great ideas as if they were light-bulb moments — sudden epiphanies where everything comes together for you. But Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From, says the great ideas of the past have taken a lot more hanging out than you’d expect.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130595037&ps=rs
Tagged with npr innovation creativity book:author=steven johnson
From Darwin’s theory of evolution to the invention of YouTube, what factors play a role in innovation? Is there such a thing as an idea whose time has come? Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From, talks about great conceptual advances and how to foster creativity.
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/24/132311762/Searching-For-The-Origins-of-Creativity?ps=rs
Tagged with npr innovation creativity book:author=steven johnson
Author Steven Johnson says that ideas don’t come in a stroke of genius â they emerge from a network of people, places and real-world constraints.
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/08/154457665/is-the-eureka-moment-a-myth
Tagged with npr ted ideas innovation book:author=steven johnson
People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London’s coffee houses to Charles Darwin’s long, slow hunch to today’s high-velocity web.
How did Darwin develop some of his ideas? Why did YouTube burst onto the social media scene when it did? And how are those two developments connected?
In this segment, we’ll talk with Steven Johnson, author of the book "Where Good Ideas Come From." We’ll talk about how great ideas come to be, and what conditions help to foster creativity and spur advances in thought.
Tim Harford, the FT’s Undercover Economist talks to internet entrepreneur Steven Johnson about his latest book, ‘Where do good ideas come from?’.
The book "Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation" explores why certain environments seem to disproportionately spark the generation and sharing of good ideas. Author Steven Johnson joins us.
How are the discovery of oxygen, the founding of the Unitarian Church and ecosystem science linked? Author Steven Johnson tells the story of scientist and theologian Joseph Priestley, a protege of Benjamin Franklin and friend of Thomas Jefferson, in The Invention of Air.
It is now conventional wisdom that the newspaper as we have come to know it for last century is over, or will be in a matter of years. The question is whether we’re going to spend our time grieving over the loss, or whether we’re going to use this moment as an opportunity to invent something even better. We’re inevitably moving from the "paper of record" model to a something more distributed, a news ecosystem, but that doesn’t mean we can’t consciously define the shape of that system. So let’s figure out what values we want to preserve from the older newspaper paradigm, and what values we want to improve upon — and then let’s go build it!
Steven Johnson, outside.in
Tagged with sxswi09 sxsw sxsw09 sxswi news steven johnson media book:author=steven johnson
Page 1 of 2Older