From the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and FarsightedSteven Johnson, author of
Where Good Ideas Come From, Emergence,
Everything Bad is Good for You,
Mind Wide Open and
Ghost Map, and an acknowledged bestselling leader on the subject of innovation, gathers - for a foundational text on the subject of innovation - essays, interviews, and cutting-edge insights by such exciting field leaders as Peter Drucker, Richard Florida, Eric Von Hippel, Dean Keith Simonton, Arthur Koestler, John Seely Brown, and Marshall Berman. Johnson also provides new material from Marisa Mayer of Google, Twitter's Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey, and Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's former Chief Software Architect. With additional commentary by Johnson himself, this book reveals the innovation found in a wide range of fields, including science, technology, energy, transportation, education, art, and sociology, making it vital, fresh, and fascinating reading for our time, and for the future.
Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of thirteen books, including
Where Good Ideas Come From,
How We Got to Now,
The Ghost Map, and
Extra Life. He’s the host and cocreator of the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series
How We Got to Now, the host of the podcast
The TED Interview, and the author of the newsletter
Adjacent Possible. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Marin County, California, with his wife and three sons.
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
 
ESSAYS
The Discipline of Innovation
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