Steven Johnson
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Author Steven Johnson uncovers powerful tools for honing the important skill of complex decision-making. Through compelling stories that reveal surprising insights, Johnson explains how we can most effectively approach the choices that can chart the course of a life, an organization, or a civilization. Farsighted will help you imagine your possible futures and appreciate the subtle intelligence of the choices that shaped our broader social history....
Author
Publisher
VIKING, Published by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A Young Readers adaptation of the New York Times Bestselling book where author, Steven Johnson, walks readers through the history and impact of six inventions that influence the modern world. His fascinating account is organized into six topics: glass, cold, sound, clean, time, light. Johnson's fresh exploration of these simple, single-syllable word concepts creates an endlessly absorbing story that moves from lightning strikes in the prehistoric...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Emergence is what happens when an interconnected system of relatively simple elements self-organizes to form more intelligent, more adaptive higher-level behavior. It's a bottom-up model rather than being engineered by a general or a master planner, emergence begins at the ground level. Systems that at first glance seem vastly different--ant colonies, human brains, cities, immune systems--all turn out to follow the rules of emergence. In each of these...
Author
Publisher
Sirio Editorial
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Las decisiones más difíciles son también las que acarrean mayores consecuencias entonces ¿por qué sabemos tan poco sobre cómo tomarlas correctamente? Dónde vivir, con quién casarnos, iniciar una empresa, cómo terminar una guerra. No existe un método único, que siempre funcione, a la hora de abordar estos desafíos. Steven Johnson nos revela potentes herramientas para perfeccionar nuestras habilidades en la toma de decisiones complejas....
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Presents an optimistic assessment of how a technologically connected world can enable a better if different future, outlining a rising model of political change that breaks traditional categories of thinking and enables positive solutions.
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