Where Good Ideas Come From

The Natural History of Innovation

This book explores the environmental and structural conditions that foster major scientific and technological innovations. The author examines historical patterns across diverse fields to identify recurring spaces where creative breakthroughs happen. Concepts like the adjacent possible and the slow hunch are used to explain how complex thoughts develop over time. The study highlights the physical and social networks that allow new concepts to emerge and spread.

by Steven Johnson

Penguin Group US · First published 2010 · 336 pages