Steven Berlin Johnson
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Steven Berlin Johnson (born June 6, 1968) is an American popular science author. He has worked as a columnist for Discover Magazine, Slate, Wired and others. He is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at New York University and he co-founded the early webzine Feed Magazine in 1995. He has published five books:
- Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms The Way We Create And Communicate (1997)
- Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (2001)
- Mind Wide Open: Your Brain And The Neuroscience Of Everyday Life (2004)
- Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter (2005)
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World (2006)
He recently announced a new online service, outside.in, which he describes as "an attempt to collectively build the geographic Web, neighborhood by neighborhood".
[edit] External links
- Johnson's personal website
- Being There Interview July/August 2006
- Brief tour of his book The Ghost Map, December 2006
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