Woher gute Ideen kommen: die Naturgeschichte der Innovation

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Woher gute Ideen kommen: die Naturgeschichte der Innovation

Über das Buch:

The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery–these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment breeds them? What sparks the flash of brilliance? How do we generate the breakthrough technologies that push forward our lives, our society, our culture? Steven Johnson’s answers are revelatory as he identifies the seven key patterns behind genuine innovation, and traces them across time and disciplines. From Darwin and Freud to the halls of Google and Apple, Johnson investigates the innovation hubs throughout modern time and pulls out the approaches and commonalities that seem to appear at moments of originality.

Über den Autor:

Steven Johnson ist der Bestsellerautor von sieben Büchern über die Schnittstelle von Wissenschaft, Technologie und persönlicher Erfahrung. Seine Schriften haben alles beeinflusst, von der Art und Weise, wie politische Kampagnen das Internet nutzen, über innovative Ideen in der Stadtplanung bis hin zum Kampf gegen den Terrorismus des 21. Jahrhunderts. 2010 wurde er vom Magazin Prospect zu einem der Top Ten Brains of the Digital Future gewählt.

His latest book, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, was a finalist for the 800CEORead award for best business book of 2010, and was ranked as one of the year’s best books by The Economist. His book The Ghost Map was one of the ten best nonfiction books of 2006 according to Entertainment Weekly. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Steven hat auch drei einflussreiche Websites mitgestaltet: das bahnbrechende Online-Magazin FEED, die mit dem Webby-Award ausgezeichnete Community-Site Plastic.com und zuletzt die hyperlokale Mediensite outside.in, die 2011 von AOL übernommen wurde ist in den Beiräten einer Reihe von internetbezogenen Unternehmen tätig, darunter Meetup.com, Betaworks und Nerve.

Steven is a contributing editor to Wired magazine and is the 2009 Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at The Journalism School, Columbia University. He won the Newhouse School fourth annual Mirror Awards for his TIME magazine cover article titled “How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live.” Steven has also written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and many other periodicals. He has appeared on many high-profile television programs, including The Charlie Rose Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He lectures widely on technological, scientific, and cultural issues. He blogs at stevenberlinjohnson.com and is @stevenbjohnson on Twitter. He lives in Marin County, California with his wife and three sons

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