Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
When nature finds itself in need of new ideas, it strives to connect, not protect.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
When nature finds itself in need of new ideas, it strives to connect, not protect.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Innovations are to a great extent a response to need.
Jon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Design that Matters,
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
this book is about innovation—about how it happens, why it happens, and who makes it happen. It is likewise about why innovation matters, not just to scientists, engineers, and corporate executives but to all of us. That the story is about Bell Labs, and even more specifically about life at the Labs between the late 1930s and the mid-1970s, isn’t a
... See moreJon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
He went on to rethink modern architecture from a biological perspective and later publicly broke with the environmental movement over nuclear power and GMO food.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Yet understanding the circumstances that led up to that unusual winter of 1947 at Bell Labs, and what happened there in the years afterward, promises a number of insights into how societies progress. With this in mind, one might think of a host of reasons to look back at these old inventions, these forgotten engineers, these lost worlds.