A newsletter from author Steven Johnson exploring where good ideas come from—and how to keep them from turning against us.
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The Legible Society
In part four of Planet of the Barbarians: how early city-states used the world’s first information technology to finally close the agrarian trap.
[In the first three installments of this series, I explored how the widely accepted idea that...
Back To The Garden
In part three of Planet of the Barbarians, a four-thousand-year paradise vanishes from the archaeological record. But did a memory of it persist in the Book of Genesis?
In part two, I explored how declassified Cold War spy satellite imager...
The Architecture Of Ideas
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been having a tremendous amount of fun curating the notebook for the new Planet of the Barbarians series. Notebook curation is a remarkably creative exercise in its own right: building out a comprehensive knowl...
The Wetlands Interregnum
In part two of Planet of the Barbarians: how Cold War espionage gave us new insight into the origins of the agricultural revolution.
Brief recap of the previous post: In part one, I explored two “standard narratives” of the Agricultural Re...
The Agrarian Fall
In part one of Planet Of The Barbarians: reconsidering humanity’s greatest mistake.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
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Author of 14 books, including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From, and the Edgar-winning The Infernal Machine. Co-founder of Google's NotebookLM. Host and co-creator of the PBS/BBC TV series Extra Life and How We Got to Now.
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