steven johnson, bestselling science writer talks about the cyberworld, popular culture in computer networking as a political tool. mr. johnson is the author of eight nonfiction natural history of innovation and future perfect: the case of progress in a networked age . steven johnson, in your newest book future perfect: the case of progress in a networked age, you use the term pier progressive. what is that? guest: my attempt to come up with a term for this new political philosophy that i see emerging all-around me. the book is a serious story about people trying to change the world and advance progress and who don t complete refit the existing model that we have between the democrats and republicans and they believe in many ways that the way that the internet was built, the way that the web was built and things like wikipedia were built using collaborative peer network for people and coming together and openly collaborating and building ideas, that is the tremendous e
political philosophy that i see emerging all around me. the book is really people who are trying to change the world in trying to ban progress, but he don t completely fit the existing models that we have between the left in the right or democrats and republicans. they believe in many ways that the way the internet was built, the way the web was built, the way things that wikipedia were built, using these collaborative. the works, where people come together from different points of view and openly collaborating, building ideas, that that mechanism is a tremendous engine for progress and growth. but it doesn t necessarily involve a government and doesn t necessarily involve capitalism or big corporation. so when you believe in a system come you don t necessarily believe in the traditional anchors that the left are traditional anchors at the right. so i felt that it is time that we had a category to describe these people come as a pure progressives is what i came up with. h
best-selling science writer will talk about the cyberworld, popular culture and computer networking as a political tool. mr. johnson is the author of eight nonfiction books including every name, were good ideas come from an the 2012 release, future perfect. host: steven johnson come in your newest book, in a network age, use those term pre-progressive. what is that? guest: it is my attempt to come up with a term for this new political philosophy that i see emerging all around me. the book is really people who are trying to change the world in trying to ban progress, but he don t completely fit the existing models that we have between the left in the right or democrats and republicans. they believe in many ways that the way the internet was built, the way the web was built, the way things that wikipedia were built, using these collaborative. the works, where people come together from different points of view and openly collaborating, building ideas, that that mechanism is
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this book they read the whole thing and what what have i done with my life? [laughter] this guy is so accomplished. so, he had gotten a deed as a minister in a church in leeds and the minister s house wasn t ready saddam often temporarily to this house adjacent to a brewery and ever inquisitive priestley kind of walked over and started investigating and i noticed they had giant vats of the year that were brewing and he saw this kind of gas coming off of the liquid and fought this is going to be a great place to do experiments so he asked the proprietor is it would be all right if he could do a little work over there appear to and i love that image of this kind of eccentric minister from next door comes over to the brewery, can i open a little lab over your be here? so one of the things he does is, one of the early experiments is he starts pouring water back and forth over this brewing beer and