Full name: Where Good Ideas Come From: A Natural History of Innovation

Author: Steven Johnson Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Business, Science, History, Psychology, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781594485381 9781594487712 1594485380 1594487715

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. Similar books: How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson Emergence by Steven Johnson Farsighted by Steven Johnson Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson Future Shock by Alvin Toffler The Innovator's Cookbook by Steven Johnson Creative Intelligence by Bruce Nussbaum The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo Weird Ideas That Work by Robert I. Sutton The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber An Alchemy of Mind by Diane Ackerman Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse Blueprint by Nicholas A. Christakis How to Fly a Horse by Kevin Ashton Soul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmer Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz Muses, Madmen, and Prophets by Daniel B. Smith