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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software is a book written by media theorist Steven Berlin Johnson, published in 2001. Early review drafts had the subtitle “What the New Science Can Teach Us About Our Minds, Our Communities, and Ourselves” instead of the “Connected lives…” [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Johnson is the author of thirteen books, largely on the intersection of science, technology, and personal experience. He has also co-created three influential web sites: the pioneering online magazine FEED, the Webby Award-winning community site, Plastic.com, and the hyperlocal media site outside.in. [6] A contributing editor to Wired, he writes regularly for The New York Times, The Wall ...
Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age (2012) is a non-fiction book published in 2012 by American author Steven Berlin Johnson.In the book, Johnson presents a new political worldview he names “peer progressivism.”
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World is a book by Steven Berlin Johnson in which he describes the most intense outbreak of cholera in Victorian London and centers on John Snow and Henry Whitehead. [1] It was released on 19 October 2006 through Riverhead.
Jack & Jack, made famous by Vine, are social media celebrities Jack Johnson and Jack Gilinsky. Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, the duo now lives and works out of Los Angeles, California.
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter is a non-fiction book written by Steven Johnson.Published in 2005, it details Johnson's theory that popular culture – in particular television programs and video games – has grown more complex and demanding over time and is making society as a whole more intelligent, contrary to the perception that ...
[4] A Financial Times review praises Johnson's suitability to address this topic, gracefully served examples, and its "positive" approach. [5] The Wall Street Journal said the book "lose(s) steam" in a consideration of decision-making at a global scale, illustrated with the issue of climate change , but its final chapter, regarding a momentous ...
Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact is a book by Native American author Vine Deloria, originally published in 1995. The book's central theme is to criticize the scientific consensus regarding the history of the Americas and the age of the Earth. He stated that in this book "We will encounter a number of ...