{{Short description|American popular science author and media theorist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2013}} {{Infobox person | name = Steven Johnson | image = Steven Berlin Johnson - South by Southwest 2008 crop.jpg | image_size = 225px | caption = Johnson at [[South by Southwest]] in 2008 | birth_name = Steven Berlin Johnson | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1968|6|6}} | birth_place = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S. | occupation = Author, TV presenter | parents = | website = {{URL|www.stevenberlinjohnson.com}} | education = [[Brown University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<ref name="BROWN">[https://alumni.brown.edu/news_events/in_the_news/artsletters.html "In the News"], Newsletter, Brown Alumni Association</ref><br>[[Columbia University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]]) | spouse = Alexa Robinson | children = 3 }}
'''Steven Berlin Johnson''' (born June 6, 1968) is an American [[popular science]] and [[Popular history|history]] author, TV and podcast host, and software creator.
==Education== Steven grew up in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref name="SJbio">{{cite web |url=http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2011/05/go-west-middle-aged-man.html |author=Johnson, Steven |date=May 20, 2011 |title=Go West, Middle-Aged Man |publisher=www.stevenberlinjohnson.com |access-date=June 6, 2014}}</ref> where he attended [[St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)|St. Albans School]]. He completed his undergraduate degree at [[Brown University]], where he studied [[semiotics]],<ref>[http://www.edge.org/documents/Johnson.html Bio] at edge.org</ref><ref>Pogrebin, Robin. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/books/04map.html?pagewanted=all "In a Multimedia Realm Where Book Meets Blog"]. ''[[The New York Times]]''. (December 4, 2006)</ref> a part of the school's modern culture and media department.<ref>[https://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/alumni/index.html Modern Culture & Media], Brown University web page.</ref> He also has a graduate degree from [[Columbia University]] in English literature.
==Career== Johnson is the author of thirteen books, largely on the intersection of science, technology, and personal experience. He has also co-created three influential web sites: the pioneering online magazine [[Feed Magazine|FEED]], the [[Webby Award]]-winning community site, [[Plastic.com]], and the [[hyperlocal]] media site outside.in.<ref>{{cite web |last=Pescovitz |first=David |date=October 24, 2006 |title=Steven Johnson launches outside.in |url=https://boingboing.net/2006/10/24/steven-johnson-launc.html |website=boingboing.net |publisher=[[Boing Boing]] |access-date=2017-10-22}}</ref> A contributing editor to ''[[wired.com|Wired]]'', he writes regularly for ''[[Nytimes.com|The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', ''[[The Financial Times]]'', and many other periodicals. Johnson also serves on the advisory boards of a number of Internet-related companies, including Medium, Atavist, [[Meetup (website)|Meetup.com]], Betaworks, and [[Patch (website)|Patch.com]].
He is the author of the best-selling book [[Everything Bad Is Good for You|''Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter'']] (2005), which argues that over the last three decades popular culture artifacts such as television dramas and video games have become increasingly complex and have helped to foster higher-order thinking skills.
His book ''Where Good Ideas Come From'' advances a notion to challenge the popular story of a lone genius experiencing an instantaneous moment of inspiration. Johnson instead argues that innovative thinking is a slow, gradual, and very networked process in which "slow hunches" are cultivated, and completed, by exposure to seemingly unrelated ideas and quandaries from other disciplines and thinkers. He lists the themes he has identified from studying which environments and conditions have been correlated, historically, with high innovation. He argues that they make theoretical sense because of their tendency to effectively explore the "adjacent possible", [[Stuart Kauffman]]'s concept (which Johnson cites) of the space of innovations waiting to be made from combining immediately-available notions and solutions.
His book ''Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age'' was released in September 2012.<ref>{{cite book |last=Johnson |first=Steven |title=Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age |date=September 18, 2012 |publisher=Penguin (Riverhead) |isbn=9781594488207 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/futureperfectcas0000john }}</ref>
In August 2013, [[PBS]] announced that Johnson would be the host and co-creator of a new six-part series on the history of innovation, ''[[How We Got to Now]]'', scheduled to air on PBS and [[BBC Two]] in Fall 2014.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130813034849/http://www.pbs.org/about/news/archive/2013/how-we-got-to-now/ "How We Got To Now"] on the [[PBS]] website</ref>
Since May 2018, Johnson has hosted the podcast ''American Innovations'', created by [[Wondery]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/40565952/a-podcast-playlist-for-your-trip-to-mars|title=A Podcast Playlist For Your Trip To Mars|last=Locker|first=Melissa|date=July 28, 2018|work=Fast Company|access-date=Jan 2, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wondery.com/shows/american-innovations/|title=American Innovations|access-date=Jan 2, 2019}}</ref>
Johnson is a [[Television host|co-host]] (with [[David Olusoga]]) of the [[PBS]]/[[Nutopia (production company)|Nutopia]] 4-part series ''Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer'', that premiered on Tuesday, May 11, 2021.<ref name="ER" >[https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/new-fourpart-series-explores-the-lifeextending-role-of-science-medicine-and-public-health/ " New Four-Part Series Explores the Life-Extending Role — ''Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer''".] Retrieved May 1, 2021.</ref> Respective hour-long episodes include "Vaccines", "Data", "Medicine", and "Behavior".<ref name="ER" />
Since the summer of 2022, Johnson has worked at [[Google]] as part of the [[Google Labs]] team. He works on the [[NotebookLM]] product, an experimental note-taking, research, and audio tool backed by [[artificial intelligence]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Levy |first=Steven |title=Google's NotebookLM Aims to Be the Ultimate Writing Assistant |url=https://www.wired.com/story/googles-notebooklm-ai-ultimate-writing-assistant/ |access-date=2024-10-12 |magazine=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Pierce |first=David |date=2024-09-22 |title=The chatbot becomes the teacher |url=https://www.theverge.com/24249388/notebooklm-google-steven-johnson-vergecast |access-date=2024-10-12 |website=The Verge |language=en}}</ref>
== Reception ==
===Critical reception===
In 1997, Harvey Blume reviewed Johnson's first book, ''Interface Culture'', and called it "a rewarding read—stimulating, iconoclastic, and strikingly original."<ref>{{cite news |last=Blume |first=Harvey |title=God, Man, and the Interface |work=[[The Atlantic]] |date=1997 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/digicult/dc9710.htm |access-date=June 6, 2014}}</ref>
''[[The A.V. Club]]'' said in a review of ''[[Everything Bad Is Good for You]]: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter'', "It's a good argument made in great detail, mapped out with lists and charts of decision-affecting contingencies and intricate narrative structures. But how necessary it is remains debatable, especially once ''Everything Bad'' settles into simply restating its already convincing premise."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.avclub.com/review/steven-johnson-ieverything-bad-is-good-for-you-how-4554 |author=Battaglia, Andy |date=May 10, 2005 |title=Steven Johnson: ''Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter'' |newspaper=[[The A.V. Club]] |access-date=June 6, 2014}}</ref>
[[David Quammen]] reviewed ''The Ghost Map'' (2006) for ''[[The New York Times]]'', writing, "There's a great story here, one of the signal episodes in the history of medical science, and Johnson recounts it well... His book is a formidable gathering of small facts and big ideas, and the narrative portions are particularly strong, informed by real empathy for both his named and his nameless characters, flawed only sporadically by portentousness and small stylistic lapses." He called the book, and Johnson, "intriguing" and "smart."<ref>{{cite news |last=Quammen |first=David |author-link=David Quammen |title=A Drink of Death |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 12, 2006 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/books/review/Quammen.t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |page=Sunday Book Review |access-date=June 6, 2014}}</ref>
''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' gave ''The Ghost Map'' an 'A' rating, saying, "''The Ghost Map'' asks the reader to imagine a situation in which 'you could leave town for a weekend and come back to find 10 percent of your neighbors being wheeled down the street in death carts.' For inhabitants of mid-19th-century London, cholera rendered this apocalyptic vision a terrifying reality... Johnson traces the courageous and ultimately successful attempt by an anesthetist/scientist/sleuth named John Snow to discover how the disease was transmitted. And he does so in a way that brings to nightmarish, thought-provoking life a world in which a swift but very unpleasant death can be just a glass of water away."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1545610,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425202544/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1545610,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 25, 2009 |last=Collis |first=Clark |title=The Ghost Map (2006) |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=Oct 13, 2006}}</ref>
Author Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, in ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'', called 2010's ''Where Good Ideas Come From'' "a vision of innovation and ideas that is resolutely social, dynamic and material" and "fluidly written, entertaining and smart without being arcane,"—"a Renaissance alchemical guide."<ref>{{cite news |last=Pang |first=Alex Soojung-Kim |title=Book Review: 'Where Good Ideas Come From' by Steven Johnson |work=[[The Los Angeles Times]] |date=November 5, 2010 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-nov-05-la-ca-steven-johnson-20101105-story.html |access-date=June 6, 2014}}</ref> [[Bruce Ramsey]] described in ''[[The Seattle Times]]'' how, in ''Where Good Ideas Come From'', "Johnson is looking for the new ideas in our civilization and seeking to explain why they arise where they do."<ref>{{cite news |last=Ramsey |first=Bruce |title='Where Good Ideas Come From': Steven Johnson asks why great ideas arise where they do |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=October 2, 2010 |url=http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2013030801_br03innovation.html |access-date=June 6, 2014}}</ref>
''[[Kirkus Reviews]]'' called ''Good Ideas'' a "robust volume that brings new perspective to an old subject" and said of Johnson, "Throughout, his infectious enthusiasm and unyielding insight inspire and entertain."<ref>{{cite journal |title=''Where Good Ideas Come From'' |journal=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |date=June 30, 2010}}</ref> ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'' said, "Like all good ideas, this book is bigger than the sum of its parts... Johnson enlivens his argument with stories and examples that bring personality and depth to his ideas, and make for an engaging read..."<ref>{{cite news |last=Hollis |first=Leo |title=''Where Good Ideas Come From'' by Steven Johnson: Review |location=London |publisher=[[Telegraph Media Group]] |work=[[The Sunday Telegraph]] |date=21 Nov 2010 }}</ref>
[[Oliver Burkeman]], in a review of ''Future Perfect'', described the book as "a wide-ranging sketch of possibilities, not a detailed policy prescription, and read as such, it's frequently inspiring. Above all, it's exciting to reflect on the possibility that the many achievements of the Silicon Valley revolution might be compatible, rather than in tension, with a progressive focus on social justice and participatory democracy."<ref>{{cite news |last=Burkeman |first=Oliver |author-link=Oliver Burkeman |title=Future Perfect by Steven Johnson – review: Can the Principles behind the Internet Solve our Problems? |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |publisher=Guardian News and Media |date=19 October 2012 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/19/future-perfect-steven-johnson-review |access-date=June 6, 2014}}</ref>
[[Ethan Gilsdorf]], also reviewing ''Future Perfect'', called it "a buoyant and hopeful book" with "clear and engaging prose."<ref>{{cite news |last=Gilsdorf |first=Ethan |author-link=Ethan Gilsdorf |title=''Future Perfect'' by Steven Johnson |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |date=September 18, 2012 |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2012/09/18/book-review-future-perfect-the-case-for-progress-networked-age-steven-johnson/ZfX43IqnrcSRGH1CvtRWOI/story.html |access-date=June 6, 2014}}</ref>
===Awards and honors=== Johnson's book ''[[Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software]]'' was a finalist for the 2002 [[Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.actionablebooks.com/authors/steven-johnson/ |date=c. 2005 |title=Business Book Authors |publisher=Actionable Books |access-date=June 6, 2014}}</ref>
His ''Where Good Ideas Come From'' was a finalist for the 800CEORead award for best business book of 2010, and was ranked as one of the year's best books by ''[[The Economist]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Page turners: Books of the Year |url=https://www.economist.com/culture/2010/12/02/page-turners |work=The Economist |date=2 December 2010 |access-date=23 September 2025}}</ref> His book ''The Ghost Map'' was one of the ten best nonfiction books of 2006 according to ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/2006/12/22/years-best-literature-jennifer-reeses-list/ |last=Reese |first=Jennifer |title=Literature of the Year: From a bleak Corman McCarthy novel to an Openhearted Memoir, Here are the 20 Books that Most Impressed EW's Critic |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |issue=913–914 |date=Dec 22, 2006}}</ref> and was [[runner up]] for the [[National Academies Communication Award]] in 2006.{{Citation needed|date=October 2017}} His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.{{Citation needed|date=October 2017}}
He was the 2009 Hearst new media professional-in-residence at [[Columbia Journalism School]],<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2011-02-17 |title=Technologist Steven Johnson to address NAB Show Technology Luncheon |url=https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/technologist-steven-johnson-to-address-nab-show-technology-luncheon |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=TV Tech |language=en}}</ref> and served for several years{{When|date=May 2014}} as a distinguished writer in residence at [[New York University]]'s Journalism School.{{Citation needed|date=October 2017}} He won a [[Newhouse School of Public Communications|Newhouse School Mirror Award]] for his 2009 ''[[Time (magazine)|TIME]]'' magazine cover article "How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live".<ref>{{cite web |last=Loughlin |first=Wendy S. |date=June 10, 2010 |title=Newhouse School announces winners in fourth annual Mirror Awards |url=http://newhouse.syr.edu/news-events/news/newhouse-school-announces-winners-fourth-annual-mirror-awards |website=newhouse.syr.edu |publisher=[[Newhouse School of Public Communications]] |access-date=2017-10-22}}</ref> He has appeared on television programs such as ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', ''[[The Charlie Rose Show]]'', ''[[The Daily Show with Jon Stewart]]'', and ''[[The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer]]''.{{Citation needed|date=October 2017}}
==Personal life== After growing up in [[Washington, D.C.]], and graduating from [[St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)|St. Albans School]] in 1986, Johnson moved to [[New York City]] in 1990 and spent twenty-one years there, living in [[Morningside Heights, Manhattan]], for seven years, then the [[West Village]], where his first son was born.<ref name="SJbio">{{cite web |url=http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2011/05/go-west-middle-aged-man.html |author=Johnson, Steven |date=May 20, 2011 |title=Go West, Middle-Aged Man |publisher=www.stevenberlinjohnson.com |access-date=June 6, 2014}}</ref> Johnson writes that, on September 11, 2001, he and his wife "watched the Twin Towers fall from Greenwich Street on our son's first day home from the hospital. When our second son was on the way, we decamped for [[Brooklyn]]..."<ref name="SJbio">{{cite web |url=http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2011/05/go-west-middle-aged-man.html |author=Johnson, Steven |date=May 20, 2011 |title=Go West, Middle-Aged Man |publisher=www.stevenberlinjohnson.com |access-date=June 6, 2014}}</ref>
In 2010, interviewer [[Oliver Burkeman]] wrote that "Johnson, who lives with his wife Alexa Robinson and their three sons in Brooklyn... gives around 50 lectures a year, and writes plenty of high-profile opinion columns, all of which he has accomplished by the not-exactly-ancient age of 42. (While we're on the topic, he also has an enormous 1.4 million followers on [[Twitter]]...)"<ref>{{cite news |last=Burkeman |first=Oliver |author-link=Oliver Burkeman |title=Future Perfect by Steven Johnson – review: Can the Principles behind the Internet Solve our Problems? |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |publisher=Guardian News and Media |date=19 October 2012 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/19/future-perfect-steven-johnson-review |access-date=June 6, 2014}}</ref>
In a 2011 blog, he wrote that he and his family would be leaving New York "for a few years" as they would be "moving to [[Marin County, California|Marin County]], on the north side of the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] across the bay from [[San Francisco]]"—"a two-year move: an adventure, not a life-changer."<ref name="SJbio">{{cite web |url=http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2011/05/go-west-middle-aged-man.html |author=Johnson, Steven |date=May 20, 2011 |title=Go West, Middle-Aged Man |publisher=www.stevenberlinjohnson.com |access-date=June 6, 2014}}</ref>
Johnson talks about a near-death experience in his 2004 book ''Mind Wide Open''. He and his wife lived in "an apartment in a renovated old warehouse on the far west edge of downtown Manhattan," a home with "a massive eight-foot-high window looking out over the [[Hudson River]]" where they often enjoyed the view. On a June afternoon, they watched "an especially severe storm" approaching. Within minutes, the storm smashed the window, of which they were not directly in front during the crisis.<ref name="MWO">{{cite book |last=Johnson |first=Steven |title=Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life |url=https://archive.org/details/mindwideopen00stev |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Scribner |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-4165-7}}</ref>{{rp|47}}
He has written that he has some difficulty with visual encoding, "a trait that I seem to share with [[Aldous Huxley]]," whom Johnson quotes at greater length in ''Mind Wide Open'' than cited here: "I am and, for as long as I can remember, I have always been a poor visualizer. Words, even the pregnant words of poets, do not evoke pictures in my mind. No hypnagogic visions greet me on the verge of sleep. When I recall something, the memory does not present itself to me as a vividly seen event or object. By an effort of the will, I can evoke a not very vivid image of what happened yesterday afternoon..."<ref name="MWO">{{cite book |last=Johnson |first=Steven |title=Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life |url=https://archive.org/details/mindwideopen00stev |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Scribner |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-4165-7}}</ref>{{rp|235}}
==Books== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Title !! Year !! width=110px | ISBN !! Subject matter |- | ''[[Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate]]'' || 1997 || {{ISBN|978-0-06-251482-0|plainlink=yes}} || |- | ''[[Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software]]'' || 2001 || {{ISBN|978-0-684-86875-2|plainlink=yes}} || [[Emergence]] |- | ''[[Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life]]'' || 2004 || {{ISBN|978-0-7432-4165-6|plainlink=yes}} || [[Cognitive neuroscience]] |- | ''[[Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter]]'' || 2005 || {{ISBN|978-1-57322-307-2|plainlink=yes}} || [[Popular culture]]; [[Video game]]s |- | ''[[The Ghost Map]]: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World'' || 2006 || {{ISBN|978-1-59448-925-9|plainlink=yes}} || [[1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak]]; [[John Snow (physician)|John Snow]] |- | ''[[The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America]]'' || 2008 || {{ISBN|978-1-59448-852-8|plainlink=yes}} || [[Joseph Priestley]] |- | ''[[Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation]]'' || 2010 || {{ISBN|978-1-59448-771-2|plainlink=yes}} || [[Innovation]] |- | ''[[Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age]]'' || 2012 || {{ISBN|978-1-59448-820-7|plainlink=yes}} || "Peer progressives" |- | ''[[How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World]]'' || 2014 || {{ISBN|978-1-59463-296-9|plainlink=yes}} || |- | ''[[Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World]]'' || 2016 || {{ISBN|978-1-5098-3729-8|plainlink=yes}} ||"Johnson's play is a combination of novelty, leisure, and pleasure"<ref name="Distillations">{{cite journal|last1=Reisert |first1=Sarah |title=Serious fun |url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/serious-fun-book-review |journal=Distillations |publisher=[[Science History Institute]]|date=2018|volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=46–47|access-date=July 11, 2018 }}</ref> |- | ''[[Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most]]'' || 2018 || {{ISBN|978-0-73521-160-5|plainlink=yes}} || [[Decision-making]] |- | ''[[Enemy of All Mankind: A true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt]]''<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545158/enemy-of-all-mankind-by-steven-johnson/9780735211605/ | title = Enemy of All Mankind | publisher = Penguin Random House | access-date = May 5, 2020 | ref = none }}</ref><ref>Higginbotham, Adam, [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/books/review/enemy-of-all-mankind-steven-johnson.html "The Pirates' Booty That Changed the Course of History" (book review)], ''The New York Times'', May 12, 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-14.</ref> || 2020 || {{ISBN|978-1-59448-821-4|plainlink=yes}} || [[Henry Every]] |- | ''[[Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer]]'' || 2021 || {{ISBN|978-0-52553-885-1|plainlink=yes}} || [[Life expectancy]] |- | ''[[The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective]]'' || 2024 || {{ISBN|978-0-59344-395-8|plainlink=yes}} || Anarchist vs NYPD in the early 20th century |}
==See also== * [[Googleshare]] * [[Popular science#Notable English-language popularizers of science|List of notable English-language science popularizers]]
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{Official website|www.stevenberlinjohnson.com}} * {{OL author|OL389304A|Steven Johnson}} * [https://roychristopher.com/steven-johnson-no-bitmaps-for-these-territories Interview with Roy Christopher, December 2004] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070313020743/http://beingtheremag.com/feature.php?id=284&issue=19 Being There Interview July/August 2006] * {{TED speaker}} ** [https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_the_web_as_a_city "The Web as a city" (TED2003)] ** [https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_how_the_ghost_map_helped_end_a_killer_disease "How the 'ghost map' helped end a killer disease" (TEDSalon 2006)] * [https://blog.longnow.org/2007/05/15/steven-johnson-consilience-defeats-miasma/ Consilience defeats miasma], [[Long Now]] talk [https://web.archive.org/web/20070701003334/http://beagle.monkeybrains.net/longnow/salt-recordings/salt-020070511-johnson/salt-020070511-johnson-web.mp3 audio], May 2007 * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20071116114157/http://fora.tv/2007/05/11/Steven_Johnson_and_Long_Zoom Steven Johnson and The Long Zoom]}}, The Long Now Foundation, San Francisco, CA, May 11, 2007 * {{C-SPAN|1014589}} ** [http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/308085-1 ''In Depth'' interview with Johnson, October 7, 2012]
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