Steven Johnson

REVIEW: Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson

November 22, 2010

In 1943, the famed MIT radiation laboratory – the Rad Lab – needed a quick fix. So they threw up a building to house researchers until the end of the second world war, expecting to tear it down within a few years. But 50 years later the wooden, asbestos-ridden Building 20 was still producing spectacular [...]

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Reading #3

November 21, 2010

Thinking about ideas is all about imagining a future, and that’s something Kristin Alford has lots of experience doing. When I caught up with her for ramen last week in Sydney, we talked through nanotech, climate science, books, data visualisation, Synapse and the Australian Network for Art and Technology (Kristin’s on the board), and the [...]

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Reading #1

November 14, 2010

Museums everywhere are experimenting with ways to manage their huge collections of physical things, information, visitors – basically data – and in Canberra, the National Museum of Australia has just started an experimental data and visualisation lab So climate change is played out as a debate. But because the answers to denialist arguments are complicated, [...]

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