Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking about change using a common language, without necessarily recognizing those shared values. You just start following your own vector, propelled along by people in your immediate vicinity. And then one day, you look up and realize that all those individual trajectories have turned into a wave.
Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinki… - Steven Johnson
Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinki…
- Steven Johnson
Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas. - Steven Johnson
Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.
We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them. - Steven Johnson
We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.
In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow mad… - Steven Johnson
In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow mad…
The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present ca… - Steven Johnson
The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present ca…
Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore. - Steven Johnson
Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore.
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation. - Steven Johnson
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.
Chance favors the connected mind. - Steven Johnson
Chance favors the connected mind.
We need to play each others instruments. - Steven Johnson
We need to play each others instruments.
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