2/28/2023 0 Comments Steven johnson author![]() One of the really wonderful things about my career is that I’ve had the freedom to write about a pretty crazy range of topics: early video games, neuroscience, nineteenth-century cholera epidemics, pirates, evolutionary theory, sewage systems, Middlemarch -I could go on, but you get the idea. ![]() If you’re interested in how innovations drive change in society, and how we can learn to better align our broader interests with the march of science and technology, this is the place for you. I hosted (or co-hosted) the PBS series How We Got To Now and Extra Life, and currently host the podcast The TED Interview. I’ve written thirteen books, including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From, and most recently Extra Life: A Short History Of Living Longer. You can easily upgrade to any of the paid tiers by clicking the button below.Ī bit more about me: I’m a non-fiction writer, podcaster, and occasional TV host. There’s also an “Ideal Reader” tier for $120/year: for that you get all the advantages of the paid subscription but I will also send you a signed, personalized copy of each new book I write, starting with my latest book, Extra Life. Guests so far have included Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Ed Yong, and the pioneering medical scientist Eric Topol future guests include xkcd’s Randall Munroe, Temple Grandin, and David Byrne. In partnership with the TED Interview podcast, I’m asking some of the world’s most brilliant minds about their own creative process. Paying subscribers also get access to an exclusive new short-term podcast series I’m doing called How Ideas Happen. It’s all about how you can do your best thinking: everything from the best note-taking applications to the science behind why so many people have their best ideas while out for a walk. Paid subscribers get access to a continuing series I’m writing about the tools and best practices for a creative workflow. There are two paid subscription tiers to Adjacent Possible: for $5/month or $50/year. We Need A Standard Unit Of Measure For Risk: More than three decades ago a Stanford professor proposed a uniform way of expressing your odds of dying from a specific cause: the micromort. It explores the two questions that have really been at the center of my work for more than two decades: where do good ideas come from, and how can we keep those ideas from turning against us? If you’re wondering what to expect from this newsletter, here are some of my favorite posts from the archives:Ĭhange Of Seasons : Our ancestors may have shifted back and forth between different work routines and social structures, often in tune with the seasons. This is a newsletter about innovation-past, present, and future. Our audiences learn about the process of innovation, its risks and rewards, and failure that led to ultimate success.Welcome to Steven Johnson’s newsletter, Adjacent Possible ![]() This event is part of the Museum’s acclaimed Revolutionaries speaker series, featuring renowned innovators, business and technology leaders, and authors in enthralling conversations often with leading journalists. of Mountain View will be on-site selling copies of How We Got To Now before and after the program. This event includes a book signing immediately following the program. ![]() Join John Hollar as he moderates an engaging conversation with Johnson about everything from how innovation happens and the "hummingbird effect," to the story of two "time travelers" who are very well known to the Computer History Museum (Babbage and Lovelace). ![]() Filled with surprising stories of accidental genius and brilliant mistakes, the book investigates the secret history behind the everyday objects of contemporary life. We’re pleased to welcome New York Times-bestselling author Steven Johnson to the Museum on the occasion of How We Got To Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World's release in paperback.Įxploring networks of creativity and the "long-zoom" approach to history, Johnson delves into six key areas – glass, cold, sound, clean, time, light – to show how multiple unexpected inventions in each led to the modern life we experience today. Important ideas are often driven by academics, governments and philanthropists. Also, it’s hardly the exclusive domain of private-sector entrepreneurs. At various points in ‘How We Got to Now,’ he helps us see how innovation is almost never the result of a lone genius experiencing a sudden voila! moment it’s a complex process involving a dizzying number of inputs, individuals, setbacks and (sometimes) accidents. Johnson is especially adept at dismantling the myths of technology creation that seem to distort our political and economic discourse. ![]()
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