Steven Johnson: The playful wonderland behind great inventions
Steven Johnson: Jak muzyka doprowadziła do wynalezienia współczesnego komputera
Steven Berlin Johnson examines the intersection of science, technology and personal experience. Full bio
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died in the rolling hills
umarł na wzgórzach
of modern day Slovenia.
obecnej Słowenii.
a mammoth died in southern Germany.
umarł w południowych Niemczech.
a griffon vulture also died
about how these animals met their deaths,
jaki koniec spotkał te zwierzęta,
dispersed across both time and space
w czasie i przestrzeni,
a bone from each of their skeletons
jaskiniowcami 40 000 lat temu.
40,000 years ago.
narzędzia do polowania.
garments from animal skins
ze skór zwierząt,
that you would invent the flute,
że stworzylibyście flet,
useless vibrations in air molecules.
wibracje wśród cząsteczek powietrza.
what our ancestors did.
to be surprisingly common
or feed their children
nakarmić dzieci
but seemingly frivolous inventions
pozornie błahych wynalazków,
momentous transformations
important invention of modern times:
wynalazek współczesności,
descend from military technology,
z technologii wojskowej,
were designed specifically
było projektowanych
or calculate rocket trajectories.
i obliczania trajektorii rakiet.
of the modern computer
to make a sound,
to create the first organ
i powstały pierwsze organy
of triggering sounds
wytwarzania dźwieków
from organs to clavichords to harpsichords
po klawikord, klawesyn
finally hit on the idea
to trigger not sounds but letters.
dźwięków, a liter.
"the writing harpsichord."
to even more powerful breakthroughs.
do jeszcze większych odkryć.
designed a device
zaprojektowali urządzenie,
that plays itself."
was basically a giant music box.
dużym, muzycznym pudłem.
various songs by using instructions
utwory, wykorzystując instrukcje
on a rotating cylinder.
umieszczonych na obrotowym walcu.
to play a different song,
with a different code on it.
na nowy, z innym kodem.
this was a massive leap forward.
with this invention.
dzięki temu wynalazkowi.
of war or of conquest,
wojny czy podboju,
of watching a machine play music.
grającego urządzenia.
for about 700 years.
of the Parisian elite.
zakodowanych walców,
of what were called automata,
tak zwanych automatów,
an automated flute player
francuskiego wynalazcę,
was designing his robot musician,
swojego muzycznego robota,
to make pleasing sounds,
maszynę, by ładnie grała,
delightful patterns of color out of cloth?
by tkała piękne, kolorowe wzory.
to represent musical notes,
jako reprezentacji nut,
threads with different colors.
nitek w różnych kolorach.
for your fabric,
and time-consuming to make,
i czasochłonne w wytwarzaniu,
of using paper-punched cards
używania dziurkowanych kart
much cheaper and more flexible
i bardziej elastyczny
Victorian inventor Charles Babbage
wiktoriańskiego wynalazcę Babbage'a
by computer programmers
użyte przez programistów
the modern computer possible?
współczesnego komputera.
is an important part of the story,
istotnym elementem historii,
also required other building blocks:
także innych części składowych:
ideas and technologies
pomysłów i technologii,
the mother of invention.
is fundamentally exploratory,
jest także odkrywczy,
in the world around us.
w otaczającym świecie.
is why so many experiences
od przyjemności i rozrywki,
delight and amusement
to profound breakthroughs.
for how we teach kids in school
jak uczymy dzieci w szkołach
in our workspaces,
and delight this way
i radości w ten sposób
sitting there in 1750
the big changes coming to society
mające zajść w społeczeństwie
as anything else at the time.
jak cokolwiek innego w tych czasach.
the beginning of a tech revolution
technologicznej rewolucji,
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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