Steven Johnson: The playful wonderland behind great inventions
Steven Johnson: Tărâmul ludic din spatele marilor invenții
Steven Berlin Johnson examines the intersection of science, technology and personal experience. Full bio
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died in the rolling hills
a Sloveniei de azi.
of modern day Slovenia.
un mamut a murit
a mammoth died in southern Germany.
și un vultur a murit
a griffon vulture also died
about how these animals met their deaths,
din locuri și timpuri diferite
dispersed across both time and space
un os din fiecare schelet
a bone from each of their skeletons
acum 40.000 de ani.
40,000 years ago.
garments from animal skins
din piele de animale
that you would invent the flute,
să inventezi flautul,
vibrații inutile ale aerului.
useless vibrations in air molecules.
what our ancestors did.
strămoșii noștri.
to be surprisingly common
a fi surprinzător de frecvent
or feed their children
sau a-și hrăni copiii
aparent frivole
but seemingly frivolous inventions
momentous transformations
mai importante invenții moderne:
important invention of modern times:
descend from military technology,
provin din tehnologia militară,
were designed specifically
au fost proiectate
sau pentru a calcula traiectorii.
or calculate rocket trajectories.
of the modern computer
calculatorului modern
to make a sound,
pentru a produce sunete,
pentru a crea prima orgă
to create the first organ
de a scoate sunete
of triggering sounds
from organs to clavichords to harpsichords
de la orgi, la clavecine
au venit cu ideea
finally hit on the idea
pentru a produce litere, nu sunete.
to trigger not sounds but letters.
"the writing harpsichord."
to even more powerful breakthroughs.
la descoperiri și mai importante.
designed a device
au proiectat un dispozitiv
„instrumentul care cântă singur.”
that plays itself."
was basically a giant music box.
muzicală enormă.
various songs by using instructions
conform instrucțiunilor
on a rotating cylinder.
pe un cilindru rotativ.
to play a different song,
cu un cod diferit.
with a different code on it.
a fost primul de acest fel.
this was a massive leap forward.
un mare salt înainte.
de hardware și software
with this invention.
odată cu această invenție.
of war or of conquest,
de război sau de cucerire
of watching a machine play music.
o mașină care produce sunete.
for about 700 years.
timp de aproape 700 de ani.
care produceau muzică
of the Parisian elite.
ale elitei pariziene.
aceiași cilindrii codificați
așa-numitelor automate,
of what were called automata,
roboți de acest fel
an automated flute player
un flaut automat
un inventator francez.
was designing his robot musician,
își proiecta robotul muzical,
to make pleasing sounds,
să producă sunete plăcute,
delightful patterns of color out of cloth?
modele de culoare din pânză?
care reprezintă note muzicale,
to represent musical notes,
threads with different colors.
fire de diferite culori.
for your fabric,
război de țesut programabil.
and time-consuming to make,
și prea migăloși,
of using paper-punched cards
cartoanelor perforate
much cheaper and more flexible
și mai flexibilă
Victorian inventor Charles Babbage
l-a inspirat pe Charles Babbage,
by computer programmers
au fost folosite de programatori
the modern computer possible?
is an important part of the story,
un rol important,
also required other building blocks:
necesita și alte lucruri:
o mică parte din poveste.
ideas and technologies
inventate din joacă,
the mother of invention.
din necesitate.
is fundamentally exploratory,
e fundamentală în explorare,
in the world around us.
is why so many experiences
motivul pentru care
din plăcere și amuzament
delight and amusement
to profound breakthroughs.
for how we teach kids in school
de învățare al copiilor
în mediul nostru de lucru,
in our workspaces,
and delight this way
și voie bună
sitting there in 1750
the big changes coming to society
marile schimbări sociale
în sec. XIX și XX,
as anything else at the time.
la acea vreme.
the beginning of a tech revolution
unei revoluții tehnologice
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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