Steven Johnson: The playful wonderland behind great inventions
اسٹیون جانسن: عظیم ایجادات کے پیچھے پوشیدہ ایک مزیدار عالم عجائبات
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died in the rolling hills
سرحد پر
of modern day Slovenia.
ہلاک ہوگیا۔
a mammoth died in southern Germany.
جنوبی جرمنی میں ہلاک ہوا۔
a griffon vulture also died
ایک گدھ کی ہلاکت ہوگئی
about how these animals met their deaths,
کہ یہ جانور کیسے ہلاک ہوئے،
dispersed across both time and space
زمانے میں بکھری ہوئی ہیں
a bone from each of their skeletons
ان کے ڈھانچوں کی ایک ہڈی سے
40,000 years ago.
40,000 سال پہلے۔
garments from animal skins
لباس کیسے بنائیں
ارادہ کریں گے؟
that you would invent the flute,
بانسری ایجاد کریں گے،
useless vibrations in air molecules.
بےکار سا تحرک پیدا کرتا ہے۔
what our ancestors did.
to be surprisingly common
حیرت انگیز حد تک
پھراپنے بچوں کی خوراک کی خاطر
or feed their children
but seemingly frivolous inventions
بے مقصد ایجادات نے آگے چل کر
momentous transformations
important invention of modern times:
ایجاد کو لیتے ہیں:
descend from military technology,
فوجی ایجادات میں سے ہیں،
were designed specifically
خاص طور پر بنائے گئے تھے
or calculate rocket trajectories.
راکٹس کی منزلوں کے تعین کے لئے۔
of the modern computer
ابتداء کی کہانی
to make a sound,
ایک آواز پیدا کرتی ہے،
to create the first organ
پہلے ساز کی شکل اختیار کرگیا
of triggering sounds
کو چھیڑنے کا بہترین خیال پیش کیا
چھوٹے لیورز کو چھیڑ کر،
from organs to clavichords to harpsichords
قدیم طرز کے پیانو سے ہوتا ہوا
finally hit on the idea
کامیاب ہوگیا
to trigger not sounds but letters.
حروف کو جگانے میں۔
"the writing harpsichord."
to even more powerful breakthroughs.
ایجادات کی وجہ بنے۔
designed a device
ایک مشین بنائی جو
that plays itself."
was basically a giant music box.
موسیقی کا ڈبہ تھی۔
various songs by using instructions
بہت سے نغمے سنے جا سکتے تھے
on a rotating cylinder.
پہئے پر سوئیاں لگی تھیں۔
to play a different song,
تو آپ کو محض
with a different code on it.
this was a massive leap forward.
بڑی جست تھی۔
with this invention.
شروع ہوگیا۔
of war or of conquest,
of watching a machine play music.
جو دلفریب موسیقی پیدا کرتی تھی۔
مشینوں کا تصور
for about 700 years.
of the Parisian elite.
of what were called automata,
کی حرکات کو کنٹرول کرنے
an automated flute player
بانسری بجانے والاتھا
was designing his robot musician,
کو بنا رہا تھا،
to make pleasing sounds,
delightful patterns of color out of cloth?
امتزاج بھی بنائے جائیں؟
to represent musical notes,
threads with different colors.
for your fabric,
نمونہ چاہئے،
کپڑا بننے کی مشین۔
and time-consuming to make,
انھِیں بنانے میں لگتا تھا وقت،
of using paper-punched cards
کاغذ کے بنے ثبت ہوسکنے والے
much cheaper and more flexible
کاغذ بہت ہی سستا
Victorian inventor Charles Babbage
وکٹورین موجد چارلس بابیچ کو مثاثر کیا
میں کامیاب ہوا،
گامزن کمپیوٹر
by computer programmers
the modern computer possible?
ممکن بنائی؟
is an important part of the story,
اہم باب ضرور ہے،
also required other building blocks:
کچھ اور بھی بنیادوں کی ضرورت تھی:
چھوٹا سا حصہ ہے۔
ideas and technologies
کی ایک طویل فہرست ہے
the mother of invention.
is fundamentally exploratory,
دریافتوں کی بنیاد بنتے ہیں،
in the world around us.
کی تلاش میں رہتے ہیں۔
is why so many experiences
تجربات کی وجہ بنتی ہے
delight and amusement
to profound breakthroughs.
عظیم کارناموں تک۔
for how we teach kids in school
ہم اپنے بچوں کو کس انداز سے تعلیم دیتے ہیں
in our workspaces,
کو کتنا فروغ دیتے ہیں،
and delight this way
sitting there in 1750
the big changes coming to society
بڑی معاشرتی تبدیلیوں کو
as anything else at the time.
ثابت ہوسکتی ہے۔
the beginning of a tech revolution
انقلاب میں تبدیل ہوسکتا ہے
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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