You are invited to hear Steven Johnson at the Akron Roundtable FREE on January 27, 2015.
The Provost has provided us with eight seats at special luncheon on innovation by Steven Johnson, best-selling author of nine books, on “How We Got To Now: Lessons from History’s Unsung Innovators” on January 27th from noon to 1:00 pm. This event is hosted by the Knight Foundation and the University as part of the Akron Roundtable speakers series. Tickets to the luncheon are being sold for $20 per person, but your price of admission is free. If you would like to attend this lunch, please RSVP by next Tuesday, January 20th to Robin Lombardi at robin4@uakron.edu
Steven Johnson has been a contributing editor to Wired magazine and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and many other periodicals. He’s appeared on many high-profile television programs, including The Charlie Rose Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The Colbert Report. The bestselling author of nine books, Steven is the leading light of today’s interdisciplinary, collaborative, open-minded approach to innovation. His writings have influenced everything from cutting-edge ideas in urban planning to the battle against 21st-century terrorism. Steven was chosen by Prospect magazine as one of the Top Ten Brains of the Digital Future. The Wall Street Journal called him “one of the most persuasive advocates for the role of collaboration in innovation. Steven’s work on the history of innovation has inspired a six-part series on PBS: How We Got To Now with Steven Johnson. As the host of the series, Steven explores the power and the legacy of great ideas, why and how ideas happen, and their sometimes unintended results. The book version How We Got To Now debuted at #4 on the New York Times Bestseller List, and the series was named one of the top ten new TV shows of 2014 by The Wall Street Journal.
Steven is also the author of bestsellers Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, The Invention of Air and The Ghost Map. Everything Bad Is Good For You, one of the most discussed books of 2005, argued that the increasing complexity of modern media is training us to think in more complex ways. His books Emergence and Future Perfect explore the power of bottom-up intelligence in both nature and contemporary society.A practitioner as well as a theoretician, Steven has co-created three influential sites: the pioneering online magazine FEED, the Webby-Award-winning community site, Plastic.com, and the hyperlocal media site outside.in, recently acquired by AOL.
