Where Good Ideas Come From
October 12, 2010 Tuesday AT 3PM CT

 
 
People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. He takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web.

Guest
  • Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From (2010) and The Invention of Air (2008).
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