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stevenberlinjohnson

I’m Steven Johnson, author of eleven books, including Farsighted, Wonderland, Where Good Ideas Come From, and The Ghost Map. Host of the PBS series How We Got To Now and the podcast American Innovations. For speaking inquiries contact wesn at leigh bureau dot com.

Farsighted: How We Make The Decisions That Matter The Most

Farsighted: How We Make The Decisions That Matter The Most

Introducing my next book, available in the U.S. this September.

Apr 19

My Books

Eleven and counting…

Aug 25, 2016

SBJ’s Cabinet Of Wonders

SBJ’s Cabinet Of Wonders

Links, observations, news—from my desk to yours all via the magic of email.

May 8

Latest

Introducing How We Got To Now, for the younger generation.

My new book on the history of innovation, written for middle-grade readers.

The Politics Of Software

Back in the early 1990s, when I was still in grad school and just beginning to think about a career writing outside…

The Messengers

Should we send messages targeting distant planets capable of supporting life? Or should we just listen for signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence?

The Disenfranchisement Index

Why the blue states are the true heirs of the Boston Tea Party

Today’s New York Times features an essay I wrote for the Sunday Review section that tries to bring together two key facts that have been discussed…

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Playing For Keeps

Are play and delight footnotes to world history? Or do they deserve their own…

How Play Leads To Great Inventions

A TED Talk based on my new book Wonderland

For the last few months, I’ve been collaborating with the great folks at TED on a talk based on the argument and stories in my new book, Wonderland: How Play Made The…

Small World After All

The Strange Roots Of Globalization (And Its Discontents)

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