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Steven Johnson is an American popular science author and media theorist whose work discusses the intersection of science, technology, and the human experience. He frequently writes for popular periodicals and has received critical acclaim for his books.

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Powell's Q&A: Steven Johnson, Author of 'Wonderland'

A surprising amount of big shifts in technology, or science, or politics can be at least partially attributed to activities that started out as purely playful ones: people just trying to amuse each other with new experiences.

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Steven Johnson
2016
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Piracy and Power: A Conversation with Steven Johnson

In conversation with the author of Everything Bad Is Good for You, The Ghost Map, How We Got to Now — about the difficulties and rewards of bringing an enigmatic historical figure like Every to life on the written page; how David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas inspired the way Enemy is constructed; and...

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Benedict Cosgrove
2020
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Why Writing Books Is More Than Processing Words

We’ve been writing with word processors for 40 years. What if we’ve been doing it wrong all this time?

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Steven Johnson
2017
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Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.)

A new initiative to beam messages into space may be our best shot yet at learning whether we’re alone in the universe. There’s just one problem: What if we’re not?

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Steven Johnson
2017
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Tool for Thought

One often hears from younger writers that they can't imagine how anyone managed to compose an article, much less an entire book, with a typewriter. Kerouac banging away at his Underwood portable?

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Steven Johnson
2005
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The Shadow Plot

Why It’s Okay To Cheat On Your Projects

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Steven Johnson
2013
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Decision-Making Should Be a Required Course in Every High School

We spend too much time making kids memorize facts instead of giving them the skill that will help them throughout their lives.

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Steven Johnson
2018
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The World-Changing Power of Wonder, Delight, and Play

Sometime in the last decades of the 1700s, a Swiss inventor and showman with the delightful name John-Joseph Merlin opened an establishment in London called Merlin’s Mechanical Museum. In modern terms, Merlin’s shop was a kind of hybrid between a science museum, a gaming arcade, and a maker lab.

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Steven Johnson
2016
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Yes, People Still Read, But Now It’s Social

“THE point of books is to combat loneliness,” David Foster Wallace observes near the beginning of “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself,” David Lipsky’s recently published, book-length interview with him.

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Steven Johnson
2010
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How to Make a Big Decision

Have no fear. An emerging science can now help you choose.

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Steven Johnson
2018
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