of his bestselling Everything Bad Is Good for You and the dazzling erudition of The Ghost Map and The Invention of Air to address an urgent and universal question: What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen? Answering in his infectious, culturally omnivorous style, using his fluency in fields from neurobiology to popular culture, Johnson provides the complete, exciting, and encouraging story of how we generate the ideas that push our careers, our lives, our society, and our culture forward.
Beginning with Charles Darwin's first encounter with the teeming ecosystem of the coral reef and drawing connections to the intellectual hyperproductivity of modern megacities and to the instant success of YouTube, Johnson shows us that the question we need to ask is, What kind of environment fosters the development of good ideas? His answers are never less than revelatory, convincing, and inspiring as Johnson identifies the seven key principles to the genesis of such ideas, and traces them across time and disciplines.
Most exhilarating is Johnson's conclusion that with today's tools and environment, radical innovation is extraordinarily accessible to those who know how to cultivate it. Where Good Ideas Come From is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how to come up with tomorrow's great ideas.…
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Inspired by the ideas of TED, Chris Anderson, Richard Dawkins, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Steven Johnson, Kevin Kelly, Ray Kurzweil, Imaginary Foundation and many others.
Dedicated to those who believe in IDEAS WORTH SPREADING!!
Special thanks to BRUNO GIUSSANI, European Director, TED Conferences.
Selected stock footage courtesy of Shutterstock. Still images provided by The Imaginary Foundation.
Music composed and performed by Bix Sigurdsson.…
minster Fuller's VECTOR EQUILIBRIUM • IDEAS, namely "point, line, surface" I have recently been trying, with the help and assistance of my son-in-law Richard Bishop • who is as equally committed as a sculptor...
... to Fuller's very own long & in depth Leonardo-like Understanding of the importance of the tetrahedron • I have been lately focussing on Richard's ideas for a "HOLE @ CENTRE" of triangular surfaces, which would in some way better establish an understanding of the totality of my IDEA for a new model of the United Nations, whilst utilising those holes to communicate by way of the transmission of twixt all concerned of "a beam" of THE UNIVERSAL LIGHT of UNDERSTANDING.ALL of which has manifested [IT]self since I first became aware at Grammar School, of the very importance of geodesic construction, whilst studying Physics, Maths Pure & Maths Applied, at 'A' LEVEL GCE, as well as ART and subsequently the the purchase of and construction of a model of a Wellington Bomber.
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