Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking… — Steven Johnson Change Copy Share Image
“Edison invented the lightbulb the way Steve Jobs invented the MP3 player: he wasn’t the first, but he was the first to… — Steven Johnson Steve Job Copy Share Image
“Early risers strolling along the Thames would see the toshers wading through the muck of low tide, dressed almost comically in flowing… — Steven Johnson Early Riser Copy Share Image
If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible. — Steven Johnson Biology Copy Share Image
The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because… — Steven Johnson Barrels Copy Share Image
Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making… — Steven Johnson Adaptive Copy Share Image
“The birth of the civil rights movement was intimately bound up in the spread of jazz music throughout the United States. It… — Steven Johnson Black and white Copy Share Image
Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about… — Steven Johnson Average Copy Share Image
“From am overall eclsyste,s perspective, if you're going to have 10million human beings trying to share an environment with other life-forms, it's… — Steven Johnson Mother nature Copy Share Image
Nothing really says ... interactivity - which was so exciting and captures the real, the Web Zeitgeist of 1995 - than 'Click… — Steven Johnson Capture Copy Share Image
“An innovation, or cluster of innovations, in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.” — Steven Johnson Innovation Copy Share Image
Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of… — Steven Johnson Childhood Copy Share Image
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons… — Steven Johnson Chess Copy Share Image
“It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life… — Steven Johnson Interconnectedness Copy Share Image
“If we're going to survive as a planet with more than 6 billion people without destroying the complex balance of our natural… — Steven Johnson Mother nature Copy Share Image
We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs,… — Steven Johnson Biased Copy Share Image
“2Do not mistake these multiple trends--the energy flows of metropolitan growth, the new taste for tea, the nascent, half-formed awareness of mass… — Steven Johnson Cause and effect Copy Share Image
“In the popular folklore of American history, there is a sense in which the founders’ various achievements in natural philosophy—Franklin’s electrical experiments,… — Steven Johnson American history Copy Share Image
Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory,… — Steven Johnson Alive Copy Share Image
That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface. — Steven Johnson Design Copy Share Image
Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate… — Steven Johnson Analysis Copy Share Image
When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive. — Steven Johnson Ideas Copy Share Image
“The wetland created by the beaver, like the thriving platform created by the Twitter founders, invites variation because it is an open… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them. — Steven Johnson Connecting Copy Share Image
