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Where good ideas come from by Steven Johnson · Booklabria

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First published: 2010
Language: English
Editions: 5

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: History
Science
Business
Business & Economics
Social Science
Evolution
Set in: Seattle
Pacific Ocean
Buffalo
Indian Ocean
Characters: Charles Darwin
Charles Babbage

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