Steven Johnson (1) (1968–)
Forfatter af The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Steven Johnson (1) has been aliased into Steven Berlin Johnson.
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Værker af Steven Johnson
Works have been aliased into Steven Berlin Johnson.
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (2006) 4,423 eksemplarer
Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter (2005) 1,954 eksemplarer
The Invention of Air: A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, And The Birth Of America (2008) 953 eksemplarer
Interface Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate (1997) 362 eksemplarer
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt (2020) 284 eksemplarer
How We Got To Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World [young reader's edition] (2018) 46 eksemplarer
The Ghost Map : 2 eksemplarer
Marketplace of Ideas or Tag Sale? (Book Review) 1 eksemplar
O mapa fantasma - Nova edicao - Uma epidemia letal e a epopeia cientifica que transformou nossas cidades (Em Portugues… (2019) 1 eksemplar
The Ghost Map. by Steven. Johnson (2006-12-23) 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Works have been aliased into Steven Berlin Johnson.
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- Juridisk navn
- Johnson, Steven Berlin
- Fødselsdato
- 1968-06-06
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bopæl
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Erhverv
- writer
website creator - Organisationer
- Outside.in
- Agent
- Lydia Wills
- Kort biografi
- Steven Johnson is the author of seven books on the intersection of science, technology and personal experience. He is a contributing editor to Wired magazine and is the 2009 Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at The Journalism School, Columbia University. He lives in Marin County, California with his wife and three sons.
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Discussions
The 2013 Science, Religion, and History group read discussion thread i 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (marts 2017)
The Ghost Map - Group Read i 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (april 2013)
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Great start of a book but the author doesn’t carry through a d doesn’t justify the title which seems to promise cimpleteness.
The book is a fun romp across connected technologies and how they enabled each other leading to deep changes in culture and society.
The book is a fun romp across connected technologies and how they enabled each other leading to deep changes in culture and society.
The author reviews the key factors which drove up life expectancy and how they came to be. The story is a perfect “science” communication piece because the author takes apart these factors into what it really rakes for knowledge to become life saving practice.
There are many important things to note:
- how culturally we celebrate wars so much more than health innovation which saves lives
- how we believe that private sector delivers results in health innovation when it is mostly been able to deliver distribution
- how health innovation is so much more complicated than the science alone because how it translates to policy makes all the difference
- how dogma even in the science community can make it hard to deliver health
Basically the vision of how science impacts health in the public is so different from what actually happened and how technology impacted life expectancy. Pretty much everyone should be aware of this history, particularly in a pandemic.
Good health needs passionate evidence based drivers, and a practical public policy translation…… (mere)
There are many important things to note:
- how culturally we celebrate wars so much more than health innovation which saves lives
- how we believe that private sector delivers results in health innovation when it is mostly been able to deliver distribution
- how health innovation is so much more complicated than the science alone because how it translates to policy makes all the difference
- how dogma even in the science community can make it hard to deliver health
Basically the vision of how science impacts health in the public is so different from what actually happened and how technology impacted life expectancy. Pretty much everyone should be aware of this history, particularly in a pandemic.
Good health needs passionate evidence based drivers, and a practical public policy translation…… (mere)
This book connects inventions with social movements in a way that formed many moments of epiphany for me. It was delightful and thought-provoking, but it's not a gripping book; I had to force myself back into it a few times because the excitement wasn't quite there (and I was reading Six Of Crows at the time), but every time I went back in I was glad I did.
It may give you a sense that, sometimes, the world really does make sense, and it will make history seem just a little bit smaller and more closely intertwined.… (mere)
It may give you a sense that, sometimes, the world really does make sense, and it will make history seem just a little bit smaller and more closely intertwined.… (mere)
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- 20
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- Medlemmer
- 14,353
- Popularitet
- #1,597
- Vurdering
- 3.8
- Anmeldelser
- 471
- ISBN
- 258
- Sprog
- 15
- Udvalgt
- 22
All in all a very important book and definitely commendable.