Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson uncovers powerful tools for honing complex decision-making skills. 

The accidental genius and brilliant mistakes that led to the invention of some everyday objects of modern life

Science and technology writer Steven Johnson explains that once inventions were made to give us light and clean, people realized how enslaved we had been by dark and dirt. 

Science and technology writer Steven Johnson explores the unintended, widespread consequences of gadgets and ideas developed to correct small problems.

The accidental genius and brilliant mistakes that led to the invention of some everyday objects of modern life

Steven Johnson makes the case that a new model of political change is on the rise, transforming everything from local governments to classrooms, from protest movements to health care. In Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age shows how politics are influenced by the interconnectedness of the Internet and breaks with the conventional categories of liberal or conservative thinking.

After Steve Jobs died on Wednesday, many reflected on his innovations, and how they changed what the world has come to expect from technology. His intuitive understanding of design and human psychology helped him to create a user-friendly approach to high-tech computing which, in turn, made Apple one of the most popular brands in the world.

We may need to adapt to the idea that our technology could someday truly have a mind of its own.

Steven Johnson looks into what sparks brilliant ideas and how innovation happens. In Where Good Ideas Come From, he tells the exciting and encouraging story of how we generate the ideas that push our careers, our lives, our society, and our culture forward.

Experts said our interconnected world was going to make outbreaks like H1N1 far worse than those that came before. But author Steven Johnson says that information spreads faster than ...

We look at the life of J.B. Priestley, the 18th century radical thinker who discovered oxygen and founded the Unitarian Church. Steven Johnson’s new book about Priestley is The Invention of Air.

Events:
Steven Johnson will be speaking and signing books at the Tribeca Barnes & Noble tonight ...

In his new book, Everything Bad is Good For You, Steven Johnson argues that many of our guilty pleasures, like primetime TV and video games may actually be enhancing our cognitive abilities — NOT making us dumber or slower. Kurt asks Steven how media junkfood, ...

Kurt Andersen talks with writer Steven Johnson about emergence — looking at the organic ways culture evolves, what art has to do with anthills. Johnson is the author of Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. He was a co-founder of the on-line magazine Feed.

What's your relation with your computer interface? Did the media blow "Gravegate?"