Steven Johnson: The playful wonderland behind great inventions
Steven Johnson: A jelentős találmányok hátterében húzódó játékos tündérország
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.
húzódó dombvidéken.
a mammoth died in southern Germany.
egy mamut harapott fűbe.
a griffon vulture also died
egy fakó keselyű múlt ki
about how these animals met their deaths,
hogy miként pusztultak el.
dispersed across both time and space
térbeli elhelyezkedésük ellenére
a bone from each of their skeletons
40,000 years ago.
ősemberek vagyunk.
vadászszerszámokat is.
garments from animal skins
meleg ruhát varrni,
that you would invent the flute,
a furulyára esne a választásunk.
useless vibrations in air molecules.
a levegő molekuláit hozza rezgésbe.
what our ancestors did.
to be surprisingly common
or feed their children
ösztönzi,
but seemingly frivolous inventions
felfedezések sokasága
momentous transformations
important invention of modern times:
legfontosabb találmányát:
descend from military technology,
a haditechnika szüleménye.
were designed specifically
kifejezetten
or calculate rocket trajectories.
rakétaröppálya kiszámolására gyártották.
of the modern computer
to make a sound,
áramoltatva hang keletkezzék –,
to create the first organ
– persze módosítva –,
of triggering sounds
hogy a hangokat
irányítsuk.
from organs to clavichords to harpsichords
a klavikordon és a csembalón keresztül
finally hit on the idea
a homlokára csapott,
to trigger not sounds but letters.
betűket kezdett irányítani.
"the writing harpsichord."
to even more powerful breakthroughs.
jelentősebb áttörésekhez vezetett.
designed a device
szerkentyűt tervezett,
that plays itself."
was basically a giant music box.
egy hatalmas zenedoboz volt.
various songs by using instructions
erre utasították.
on a rotating cylinder.
to play a different song,
más dalba fogjon,
with a different code on it.
kicserélni, más kóddal.
this was a massive leap forward.
ez hatalmas előrelépés volt.
with this invention.
először "elgondolhatóvá".
of war or of conquest,
of watching a machine play music.
amelyet a zenegép hallgatása ad.
for about 700 years.
csakis a zene tartotta életben.
of the Parisian elite.
a kódolt hengereket használták
of what were called automata,
irányítására.
an automated flute player
egy automatizált fuvolaművész volt,
was designing his robot musician,
to make pleasing sounds,
zene lejátszására,
delightful patterns of color out of cloth?
hogy pamutból színes mintákat szőjön?
to represent musical notes,
vezérelnek,
threads with different colors.
for your fabric,
and time-consuming to make,
és körülményesnek bizonyultak,
Jacquardnak
of using paper-punched cards
hogy lyukkártyákat használjon
much cheaper and more flexible
és rugalmasabb módja
Victorian inventor Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage-nak
by computer programmers
egészen az 1970-es évek végéig
the modern computer possible?
a modern számítógépet?
is an important part of the story,
történetünk fontos része marad.
also required other building blocks:
a számítógép feltalálásához:
ideas and technologies
a világot megváltoztató felfedezések
the mother of invention.
is fundamentally exploratory,
alapvetően felfedező szellemű.
in the world around us.
a minket körülvevő világban.
is why so many experiences
hogy a puszta élvezetből
delight and amusement
megannyi tapasztalat
to profound breakthroughs.
komoly áttörésekhez.
for how we teach kids in school
hogy mire tanítjuk gyerekeinket,
in our workspaces,
az innovációt a munkában.
and delight this way
így gondolkodunk,
sitting there in 1750
the big changes coming to society
nagy társadalmi változásait:
as anything else at the time.
lett volna, mint sok más korabeli dolog.
nem volt, s mégis:
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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