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Where Good Ideas Come From

The Natural History of Innovation

The Natural History of Innovation

The Natural History of Innovation

By Steven Johnson

By Steven Johnson

By Steven Johnson

By Steven Johnson

By Steven Johnson

By Steven Johnson

By Steven Johnson
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By Steven Johnson
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Oct 04, 2011 | ISBN 9781594485381

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    About Where Good Ideas Come From

    A fascinating deep dive on innovation from the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Unexpected Life

    The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery–these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment breeds them? What sparks the flash of brilliance? How do we generate the breakthrough technologies that push forward our lives, our society, our culture? Steven Johnson’s answers are revelatory as he identifies the seven key patterns behind genuine innovation, and traces them across time and disciplines. From Darwin and Freud to the halls of Google and Apple, Johnson investigates the innovation hubs throughout modern time and pulls out the approaches and commonalities that seem to appear at moments of originality.

    About Where Good Ideas Come From

    From the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Extra Life

    The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery—these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment breeds them? What sparks the flash of brilliance? How do we generate the breakthrough technologies that push forward our lives, our society, our culture? Steven Johnson’s answers are revelatory as he identifies the seven key patterns behind genuine innovation, and traces them across time and disciplines. From Darwin and Freud to the halls of Google and Apple, Johnson investigates the innovation hubs throughout modern time and pulls out applicable approaches and commonalities that seem to appear at moments of originality. Where Good Ideas Come From gives us both an important new understanding of the history of innovation and a set of useful strategies for cultivating our own creative breakthroughs.

    About Where Good Ideas Come From

    A fascinating deep dive on innovation from the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Unexpected Life

    The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery–these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment breeds them? What sparks the flash of brilliance? How do we generate the breakthrough technologies that push forward our lives, our society, our culture? Steven Johnson’s answers are revelatory as he identifies the seven key patterns behind genuine innovation, and traces them across time and disciplines. From Darwin and Freud to the halls of Google and Apple, Johnson investigates the innovation hubs throughout modern time and pulls out the approaches and commonalities that seem to appear at moments of originality.

    About Where Good Ideas Come From

    One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from?

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    About Steven Johnson

    Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of eleven books, including Where Good Ideas Come From, Wonderland, and The Ghost Map. He’s the host and co-creator of the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got To Now, and the host of the… More about Steven Johnson

    About Steven Johnson

    Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of eleven books, including Where Good Ideas Come From, Wonderland, and The Ghost Map. He’s the host and co-creator of the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got To Now, and the host of the… More about Steven Johnson

    About Steven Johnson

    Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of eleven books, including Where Good Ideas Come From, Wonderland, and The Ghost Map. He’s the host and co-creator of the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got To Now, and the host of the… More about Steven Johnson

    About Steven Johnson

    Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of eleven books, including Where Good Ideas Come From, Wonderland, and The Ghost Map. He’s the host and co-creator of the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got To Now, and the host of the… More about Steven Johnson

    Product Details

    Category: Business | Technology | Psychology

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Oct 04, 2011 | 344 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781594485381

    Category: Business | Technology | Psychology

    Hardcover | $28.00
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Oct 05, 2010 | 336 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9781594487712

    Category: Business | Technology | Psychology

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Oct 05, 2010 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9781101444207

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    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Oct 05, 2010 | 430 Minutes | ISBN 9781101403860

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    Stimulating and insightful … a huge diversity of bright ideas—Financial Times

    Johnson develops his provocative thesis in a book that is lucid and … brilliant.—New Scientist

    [An] exhilarating, idea-thirsty book … full of intriguing facts.—Sunday Times

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