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Where good ideas come from

  • Steven Johnson,
  • Steven Johnson

3.76

17 ratings

This work tracks the history of innovation in the form of the "slow hunch". The author discusses how new ideas form from the scaffolding of older ideas, a phenomenon he describes as the "adjacent possible". Includes delightful figures of how innovative ideas are shifting from one man with a plan for a profit to many minds working for the public good.

Genres

  • invention
  • creativity
  • society
  • openness
  • innovation
  • vacuum tubes
  • evolution
  • the Beagle
  • coral reefs
  • Creativeness
  • Creative thinking
  • business
  • ideas
  • thinking
  • inventions
  • SCIENCE
  • Motivational
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
  • History
  • Creative ability
  • Long Now Manual for Civilization
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About the authors

  • Steven Johnson

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    27 ratings · 130 works

  • Steven Johnson

    born 1968

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    53 ratings · 39 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    Penguin Group US

    2011

  • Edition cover

    Riverhead Books

    Oct 04, 2011

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  • Edition cover

    Riverhead, Riverhead Books

    October 5, 2010

Edition cover

Penguin Books, Limited

2011