Steven Johnson on Inventions

Here's a nice video reviewing Steven Johnson's ideas on "where inventions come from". This is a promo for his soon-to-be published book Where Good Ideas Come From(coming out October 5th):



You can get another taste of Steven Johnson giving a TED talk from February 2003 about his book Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software and his experience on 9/11:



And here is my take on his previous book The Invention of Air.