Steven Johnson: The playful wonderland behind great inventions
סטיבן ג'ונסון: השובבות הנפלאה מאחורי המצאות הגדולות
Steven Berlin Johnson examines the intersection of science, technology and personal experience. Full bio
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died in the rolling hills
of modern day Slovenia.
a mammoth died in southern Germany.
ממותה מתה בדרום גרמניה.
a griffon vulture also died
נשר מקראי גם כן מת
about how these animals met their deaths,
חיות אלו מצאו את מותם,
dispersed across both time and space
שהיו פזורים במרחבי הזמן והמרחב
a bone from each of their skeletons
40,000 years ago.
garments from animal skins
that you would invent the flute,
useless vibrations in air molecules.
ערך במולקולות האוויר.
what our ancestors did.
שאבותינו עשו.
to be surprisingly common
היתה נפוצה באופן מפתיע
or feed their children
או להאכיל את ילדיהם
but seemingly frivolous inventions
אך חסרות טעם לכאורה,
momentous transformations
להנעת שינויים רבי חשיבות
important invention of modern times:
החשובות ביותר בזמנים המודרניים:
descend from military technology,
נולדו מטכנולוגיה צבאית.
were designed specifically
פותחו במיוחד
or calculate rocket trajectories.
או לחשב מסלולי טילים.
of the modern computer
המחשב המודרני
to make a sound,
צינור כדי להפיק קול,
to create the first organ
פיתוח האורגן הראשון
of triggering sounds
להפקת צליל
עם האצבעות,
from organs to clavichords to harpsichords
לקלאוויקורד, לצ'מבלו
finally hit on the idea
to trigger not sounds but letters.
כדי להפעיל אותיות במקום קול.
"the writing harpsichord."
"צ'מבלו הכתיבה".
to even more powerful breakthroughs.
לפריצות דרך משמעותיות יותר
designed a device
that plays itself."
was basically a giant music box.
various songs by using instructions
על-ידי שימוש בהוראות
on a rotating cylinder.
סיכות שהונחו על גליל מסתובב.
to play a different song,
with a different code on it.
this was a massive leap forward.
with this invention.
בעזרת ההמצאה הזו.
of war or of conquest,
of watching a machine play music.
שבצפייה במכונה מנגנת מוזיקה.
for about 700 years.
במשך כ-700 שנה.
of the Parisian elite.
of what were called automata,
של מה שכונה אוטומטה,
an automated flute player
was designing his robot musician,
את הרובוט המוסיקלי שלו,
to make pleasing sounds,
delightful patterns of color out of cloth?
דפוסי צבע יפים מבדים?
to represent musical notes,
לייצוג תווי מוזיקה,
threads with different colors.
for your fabric,
and time-consuming to make,
וצרכו זמן רב להכנה,
of using paper-punched cards
much cheaper and more flexible
ויותר גמיש
Victorian inventor Charles Babbage
לממציא הויקטוריאני צ'ארלס בבג'
הראשון באמת
by computer programmers
the modern computer possible?
is an important part of the story,
also required other building blocks:
ideas and technologies
רעיונות וטכנולוגיות ששינו את העולם,
the mother of invention.
is fundamentally exploratory,
in the world around us.
בעולם שסובב אותנו.
is why so many experiences
שכל כך הרבה חוויות
delight and amusement
to profound breakthroughs.
for how we teach kids in school
אנו מלמדים ילדים בבתי ספר
in our workspaces,
בסביבת העבודה שלנו,
and delight this way
sitting there in 1750
the big changes coming to society
עתידים להשפיע על החברה
as anything else at the time.
the beginning of a tech revolution
של מהפכה טכנולוגית
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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