Steven Johnson: The playful wonderland behind great inventions
Стывен Джонсан: Як забава вядзе да вялікіх вынаходніцтваў
Steven Berlin Johnson examines the intersection of science, technology and personal experience. Full bio
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died in the rolling hills
памёр на схілах
of modern day Slovenia.
сучаснай Славеніі.
a mammoth died in southern Germany.
Нямеччыны загінуў мамант.
a griffon vulture also died
about how these animals met their deaths,
як загінулі гэтыя жывёлы.
dispersed across both time and space
ў часе і прасторы,
a bone from each of their skeletons
кожнага з іх
рукамі
40,000 years ago.
40 000 гадоў таму.
прылады.
garments from animal skins
са cкуры жывёлаў,
that you would invent the flute,
вынаходніцтва флейты,
useless vibrations in air molecules.
сатрасае малекулы паветра.
what our ancestors did.
зрабілі нашыя продкі.
to be surprisingly common
інавацый.
or feed their children
пракарміць сваіх нашчадкаў,
паселішча.
захапляльныя.
but seemingly frivolous inventions
фрывольных вынаходніцтваў
momentous transformations
зменаў
important invention of modern times:
адкрыццяў сучаснасці --
descend from military technology,
ваеннае паходжанне.
were designed specifically
было распрацавана
or calculate rocket trajectories.
і выліку ракетных траекторый.
of the modern computer
сучасных кампутараў
to make a sound,
трубку і атрымання гука,
to create the first organ
першага аргана
of triggering sounds
ідэя атрымання гукаў
маленькія рычагі.
музычная клавіятура.
from organs to clavichords to harpsichords
у клавікорды, клавесіны
finally hit on the idea
to trigger not sounds but letters.
музыкі, а дзеля літар.
"the writing harpsichord."
to even more powerful breakthroughs.
да больш моцных змен.
designed a device
that plays itself."
які грае сам''.
was basically a giant music box.
музычную скрынку.
various songs by using instructions
ў залежнасці ад інструкцый,
on a rotating cylinder.
на цыліндры, што круціўся.
to play a different song,
іншую песню,
with a different code on it.
цыліндр з іншым кодам.
такога кшталту.
this was a massive leap forward.
вялізны крок наперад.
забяспечання
with this invention.
дзякуючы гэтаму адкрыццю.
of war or of conquest,
of watching a machine play music.
бачыць самаграючы апарат.
падтрымлівалася
for about 700 years.
на працягу амаль 700 гадоў.
of the Parisian elite.
цыліндрамі з кодам,
of what were called automata,
званых ''аўтаматаў'' --
такіх робатаў,
an automated flute player
аўтаматычным флейтыстам.
французкі вынаходца
was designing his robot musician,
to make pleasing sounds,
машыну так,
delightful patterns of color out of cloth?
каб яна ткала каляровую тканіну.
to represent musical notes,
threads with different colors.
for your fabric,
малюнак на тканіне,
новы цыліндр.
and time-consuming to make,
і рабіліся доўга.
of using paper-punched cards
карткамі
much cheaper and more flexible
Victorian inventor Charles Babbage
вынаходцу Чарльза Бэбіджа
by computer programmers
the modern computer possible?
магчымым стварэнне кампутараў?
is an important part of the story,
ролю ў гісторыі,
also required other building blocks:
складаецца з іншага:
частка гісторыі.
ideas and technologies
якія змянілі сусвет,
страхавы бізнэс
the mother of invention.
is fundamentally exploratory,
нас да даследвання,
in the world around us.
у акаляючым асяроддзі.
is why so many experiences
што досвед,
delight and amusement
to profound breakthroughs.
for how we teach kids in school
мы вучым дзяцей у школе
in our workspaces,
на працоўным месцы.
and delight this way
sitting there in 1750
the big changes coming to society
вялікія сацыяльныя змены
парыжскую шляхту.
as anything else at the time.
падказкай у той час.
the beginning of a tech revolution
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Steven Johnson - WriterSteven Berlin Johnson examines the intersection of science, technology and personal experience.
Why you should listen
Steven Johnson is a leading light of today's interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to innovation. His writings have influenced everything from cutting-edge ideas in urban planning to the battle against 21st-century terrorism. Johnson was chosen by Prospect magazine as one of the top ten brains of the digital future, and The Wall Street Journal calls him "one of the most persuasive advocates for the role of collaboration in innovation."
Johnson's work on the history of innovation inspired the Emmy-nominated six-part series on PBS, "How We Got To Now with Steven Johnson," which aired in the fall of 2014. The book version of How We Got To Now was a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. His new book, Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World, revolves around the creative power of play and delight: ideas and innovations that set into motion many momentous changes in science, technology, politics and society.
Johnson is also the author of the bestselling Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, one of his many books celebrating progress and innovation. Others include 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. Emergence and Future Perfect explore the power of bottom-up intelligence in both nature and contemporary society.
An innovator himself, Johnson 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, which was acquired by AOL in 2011.
Johnson is a regular contributor to WIRED magazine, as well as the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and many other periodicals. He has appeared on many high-profile television programs, including "The Charlie Rose Show," "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer."
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