Steven Johnson (author)
Steven Johnson | |
|---|---|
 Steven Johnson | |
| Born | 6 June 1968 |
| Occupation | Columnist |
| Website | Official site |
Steven Berlin Johnson (born June 6, 1968) is an American popular science author.
Career
Steven Johnson has worked as a columnist for magazines such as Discover Magazine, Slate, and Wired. He co-founded the early webzine Feed Magazine in 1995, and the Webby-award-winning news discussion site Plastic.com in 2001. He is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.
He is the author of the best selling book, 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 (like television dramas and video games) have become increasingly complex and have helped to foster higher-order thinking skills. On March 9, 2009, he appeared on The Colbert Report to promote his new book, The Invention of Air.
In 2006, he announced a new online service, Outside.in, which he described as "an attempt to collectively build the geographic Web, neighborhood by neighborhood".[1]
Personal life
Steven Johnson is married and has three sons. He lives with his family in Brooklyn.
Bibliography
Johnson has published the following books:
- Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate (1997)
- Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (2001)
- Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life (2004)
- Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter (2005)
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World (2006)
- The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America (2008)
See also
References
External links
- Official site
- Interview with Roy Christopher, December 2004
- Being There Interview July/August 2006
- TED Talks: Steven Johnson on the Web as a city at TED in 2003
- TED Talks: Steven Johnson tours the Ghost Map at TED Salon in 2006
- Consilience defeats miasma, Long Now talk audio, May 2007
- Steven Johnson TEDTalk: The Web and the city