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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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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences.

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Steven Johnson
2024
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world.

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Steven Johnson
2007
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Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter

Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture.

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Steven Johnson
2006
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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt

Henry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular—and wildly inaccurate—reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead.

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Steven Johnson
2021
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The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America

In The Invention of Air, national bestselling author Steven Johnson tells the fascinating story of Joseph Priestley—scientist and theologian, protégé of Benjamin Franklin, friend of Thomas Jefferson—an eighteenth-century radical thinker who played pivotal roles in the invention of ecosystem...

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Steven Johnson
2009
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

Explaining why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts, Johnson presents surprising examples of feedback, self-organization, and adaptive learning.

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Steven Johnson
2001
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Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age

Combining the deft social analysis of Where Good Ideas Come From with the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good For You, New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson’s Future Perfect makes the case that a new model of political change is on the rise, transforming everything from...

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Steven Johnson
2012
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Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

As a species we have doubled our life expectancy in just one hundred years. All the advances of modern life—the medical breakthroughs, the public health institutions, the rising standards of living—have given us each about twenty thousand extra days on average.

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Steven Johnson
2021
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Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions that Matter the Most

Plenty of books offer useful advice on how to get better at making quick-thinking, intuitive choices.

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Steven Johnson
2019
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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World

This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change.

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Steven Johnson
2017
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