One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe noticed for the first time that they were farsighted, and needed spectacles to read books (which they hadn’t really noticed before books became part of everyday life); which THEN created a market for lens makers, which then created pools of expertise in crafting lenses, which then led people to tinker with those lenses and invent the telescope and microscope, which then revolutionized science in countless ways.
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…
- 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… - 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…
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.
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.
We need to play each others instruments. - Steven Johnson
We need to play each others instruments.
Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memorie… - Steven Johnson
Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memorie…
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…
What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an envir… - Steven Johnson
What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an envir…
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.
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