Show Notes
- Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594485380?tag=9natree-20
- Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/Where-Good-Ideas-Come-From%3A-The-Natural-History-of-Innovation-Steven-Johnson.html
- Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/where-good-ideas-come-from-the-natural-history/id1418794214?itsct=books_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1&at=1001l3bAw&ct=9natree
- eBay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Where+Good+Ideas+Come+From+The+Natural+History+of+Innovation+Steven+Johnson+&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5339060787&customid=9natree&toolid=10001&mkevt=1
- Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/1594485380/
#adjacentpossible #liquidnetworks #slowhunch #exaptation #openplatforms #WhereGoodIdeasComeFrom
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation is Steven Johnsons popular science and innovation studies account of how breakthroughs emerge across nature, technology, science, and culture. Rather than treating invention as the product of solitary genius or sudden inspiration, Johnson argues that ideas usually develop through connected environments, long incubation, recombination, and cumulative change. The book draws on examples from evolutionary biology, urban life, scientific discovery, computing, and media history to identify recurring patterns that make innovation more likely. Its purpose is partly explanatory and partly practical: it offers readers a way to understand why some periods, institutions, and communities generate more novelty than others. Johnsons central claim is that creativity is not simply an individual mental event. It is shaped by networks, available tools, prior discoveries, mistakes, and the social conditions that allow partial ideas to meet. The result is a broad, interdisciplinary framework for thinking about innovation as an ecological process.