- invention, creativity, society, openness
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.
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Warm, spare, earnest and cool.
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- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Steven Johnson
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 326
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Riverhead Books, Riverhead
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781594487712
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