GUEST BLOG POST (VIDEO): Where Good Ideas Come From — Steven Johnson (TED Talk)

Editor’s Note: This post is the third of three posts which we wish to use to establish the collaborative nature of ideas birthing. In the article, Where Original Ideas Come From, Greg Satell made the point on the nature of and result of communal effort in the emergence of scientific revolution. Then Rowan Gibson established in How Big Ideas Are Built that Einstein stood on the on the shoulder of more giants to revolutionize physics among other facts. 

In this post, Steven Johnson in this 2010 TED talk takes us through history to show even more examples of collaborative idea birthing and growing. People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web. 
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