“Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking about change using a common language, without necessarily recognizing those shared values. You just start following your own vector, propelled along by people in your immediate vicinity. And then one day, you look up and realize that all those individual trajectories have turned into a wave.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksDifferentValuesIndividualLanguageRealizingCommonGroupsMovementFieldsOne DayWaveFollowingLook UpLocationRecognizingTrajectoryCommon LanguageVicinityShared ValuesVectors Author:Steven Johnson
“One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe noticed for the first time that they were farsighted, and needed spectacles to read books (which they hadn’t really noticed before books became part of everyday life); which THEN created a market for lens makers, which then created pools of expertise in crafting lenses, which then led people to tinker with those lenses and invent the telescope and microscope, which then revolutionized science in countless ways.” PeopleWayFirstsBookStoriesLove IsInterestingNeededFirst TimeEuropePressesEverydayReactionsChainsMakersPoolEveryday LifeLensesExpertisePrintingTelescopesMicroscopesSpectaclesPrinting PressChain ReactionsGutenberg Author:Steven Johnson
“The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.” WayKindStatesShadowEdgesMapsHovering Book:Where Good Ideas Come From Source: Where Good Ideas Come From
“Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.” WayKindCultureAspectCriticismPopsAnalysisPerformingPop CultureSymbolic Book:Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter Source: Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
