Where good ideas come from

By Steven Johnson Steven Johnson

Subjects: inventions, ideas, the Beagle, creativity, innovation, evolution, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Creative thinking, invention, SCIENCE, vacuum tubes, thinking, coral reefs, business, openness, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Creative ability, Motivational, society, History, Creativeness

Description: This work tracks the history of innovation in the form of the "slow hunch". The author discusses how new ideas form from the scaffolding of older ideas, a phenomenon he describes as the "adjacent possible". Includes delightful figures of how innovative ideas are shifting from one man with a plan for a profit to many minds working for the public good.