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author Steven Johnson
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"Chance favors the connected mind." — Steven Johnson
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popular science writer Steven Johnson's official website
author Steven Johnson entry at Wikipedia
browse books at the Steven Johnson Store at Amazon
Steven Johnson credits [since 2004] at Internet Movie Database
Primary Works
browse books at the Steven Johnson Store at Amazon
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"Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms The Way We Create and Communicate" [1997]
ISBN 978-0-06-251482-0
"Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software" [2001] ISBN 978-0-684-86875-2
"Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and The Neuroscience of Everyday Life" [2004]
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Scribner 8½x5¾ pb [5/2005] for $10.20
Scribner hardcover [1/2004] for $16.50 Tantor Media UNABR audio CD [8/2004] for $19.79 |
"Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter" [2005]
ISBN 978-1-57322-307-2
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"The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How It Changed
Science, Cities and The Modern World" [2006]
 | National bestseller and New York Times Notable Book; the story of physician John Snow's heroic efforts to contain the Summer 1854 cholera outbreak while also researching and defining its cause
Kindle Edition from Riverhead Books [2006 edition] for $13.99 Riverhead Books 8¼x5½ pb [10/2007] for $11.29 Riverhead Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2006] for $19.19 |
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"The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and The Birth of America" [2008]
ISBN 978-1-59448-852-8 Joseph Priestley
"Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation" [2010]
ISBN 978-1-59448-771-2
"Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age" [2012] ISBN 978-1-59448-820-7
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"How We Got To Now: Six Innovations That Made The Modern World" [2014]
 | The six major topics are: glass (telescopes & spectacles), cold (refrigeration & air conditioning, frozen food), sound (recordings, radio), clean (water, disease, sewage), time (pendulum clocks and the Industrial Revolution), and light (Edison, neon)
Kindle Edition from Riverhead/Penguin [9/2014] for $14.99 Riverhead Books 9x6 pb [9/2015] for $10.88 Riverhead Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2014] for $13.21 Riverhead Books 9½x6¼ hardcover [9/2014] out of print/used Riverhead Books 9½x6¼ hardcover [9/2014] out of print/used |
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"Wonderland: How Play Made The Modern World" [2016]
 | Author relates many tales of inventors whose eureka moment occured as a result of play (tinkering or just fooling around)
Kindle Edition from Riverhead/Penguin [11/2016] for $13.99 Riverhead Books pb [DUE Nov 2017] for $13.88 9¼x6½ hardcover [11/2016] for $15.59 |
Movies, Stageplays, Other Media
Steven Johnson credits [since 2004] at Internet Movie Database
"The Hard Problem: The Science Behind The Fiction" video documentary [2004]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439598/
"Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter" [2005? lecture]
at Microsoft Research in Seattle
watch full lecture [1:04:22] online at YouTube
"Steven Johnson: A Guided Tour of The Ghost Map" [nov 2006] TED Talk in nyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvHL0dHj3RM [upload 5/2007; 10:49]
 | "Steven Johnson: The Long Zoom" lecture [indep Sept 2007]
Presented by The Long Now Foundation, hosted by Stewart Brand • not listed at IMDb CreateSpace color DVD [9/2007] for $12.99 DVD available at producer website |
"Steven Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From" TED Talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0af00UcTO-c [upload 9/2010; 18:16]
 | "Steven Johnson" episode [aired Oct 2012] of the C-SPAN2 Book-TV "In Depth" book talk show [2000-present] 3-hour interview by host Peter Slen of Steven B. Johnson, shortly after publication of the "Future Perfect" book bare credits at IMDb • watch full show [2:59:21] online at C-SPAN2 |
"How We Got To Now: Six Innovations That Made The Modern World" [2013 lecture] at Microsoft Research in Seattle
watch full lecture [8/2016 upload; 59:26] online at YouTube
"How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson" documentary TV mini-series [2014] Himself - Host
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3106210/
https://www.amazon.com/How-Got-Steven-Johnson-Blu-ray/dp/B00R041D5K/
https://www.amazon.com/How-Got-Now-Steven-Johnson/dp/B00LLQ2A2S/
https://www.amazon.com/Clean/dp/B00OJCNVQA/ vod
"Steven Johnson: The Playful Wonderland Behind Great Inventions" TED Talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLltkC-G5dY [upload 12/2016; 7:25]
Works About Steven Johnson
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Family & Friends & Companies
Steven Berlin Johnson was born in Washington, DC in 1968; moved to New York City in 1990; moved family to California 'for two years' in 2011; current location unclear (2017)
wife Alexa Robinson Johnson
their three sons
Companies & Websites
co-founder and editor-in-chief of FEED Magazine {feedmag.com}, the former science & culture web magazine [1995-2001]
Johnson began building the www.outside.in website in May 2006; it still existed in 2012, but is now a Chinese squatter site.
L i n k s
popular science writer Steven Johnson's official website
author Steven Johnson entry at Wikipedia
browse books at the Steven Johnson Store at Amazon
Steven Johnson credits [since 2004] at Internet Movie Database
here on the Steven Johnson Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
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