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How We Got To Now 6 Aug 2013 | 11:28 pm
Every now and then in life you find yourself in a situation where you have to pause for a second and ask yourself: what unlikely sequence of events has led me to this point? I had one of those moments...
The GovLab 18 Apr 2013 | 05:17 am
Several years ago, my friend and now collaborator Beth Noveck began developing a program that she called Peer-to-Patent, a software platform that allowed outside experts and informed amateurs to contr...
What Peer Progressives Really Believe 6 Feb 2013 | 11:08 pm
If you have patience for this kind of online debate, The New Republic is now running my extended response to Evgeny Morozov's review (along with a new response from him). It cites a number of the misl...
Tilting At Windmills, The Internet Edition 5 Feb 2013 | 10:11 pm
Evgeny Morozov has written a long and entertaining critique of my book Future Perfect in last week’s issue of The New Republic. It’s mostly an attack on the “quasi-religion” of “internet-centrism” tha...
Bill Clinton On "Creative Networks of Collaboration" 17 Jan 2013 | 12:19 am
Yesterday marked the opening day of the Clinton Foundation’s “Health Matters” conference in Palm Springs. I had heard a bit of advance word about the conference from a friend who was headed down there...
A Quick Roundup Of Future Perfect News 10 Oct 2012 | 12:02 am
I've been so crazed with the book tour for Future Perfect that I haven't had a chance to put together some account of the response the book is receiving. I've tried to capture at least some of this on...
Future Perfect Tour 16 Sep 2012 | 11:19 pm
Here's the latest schedule for my Future Perfect appearances. Hope some of you can come out. In the spirit of a book about collaboration, many of these events are actual conversations with other peopl...
First reviews for Future Perfect 27 Aug 2012 | 10:58 pm
A couple nice early reviews of Future Perfect have come in over the past few weeks: Publishers Weekly calls it "fascinating and compelling" and says "Johnson’s thought-provoking ideas steer us steadil...
Introducing Future Perfect 27 Jul 2012 | 01:54 am
In the spring of 2001, I was finishing up the final chapter of my second book, Emergence: The Connected Lives Of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. That subtitle gives some sense of the book’s specif...
Why The Bay Area Needs The Bay Lights 17 Mar 2012 | 04:20 pm
For a few months now, I’ve been talking to my new neighbors here in California about my old friend Leo Villareal’s proposed epic installation on the Bay Bridge, commemorating the Bridge’s 75th anniver...
