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  1. Steven Johnson _ How We Got to Now: Six

    No one recognized – and exploited – this new power more quickly than Adolf Hitler,
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  2. Steven Johnson _ How We Got to Now: Six

    Amplification created an entirely new kind of political event: mass rallies oriented around individual speakers.
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  3. Steven Johnson _ How We Got to Now: Six

    Like every big idea, Birdseye's breakthrough was not a single insight, but a network of other ideas, packaged together in a new configuration. What made Birdseye's idea so powerful was not simply his individual genius, but the diversity of places and forms of expertise that he brought together.
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  4. Steven Johnson _ How We Got to Now: Six

    Most discoveries become imaginable at a very specific moment in history, after which point multiple people start to imagine them. The electric battery, the telegraph, the steam engine, and the digital music library were all independently invented by multiple individuals in the space of a few years.
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  5. Steven Johnson _ How We Got to Now: Six

    Edison invented the lightbulb the way Steve Jobs invented the MP3 player: he wasn't the first, but he was the first to make something that took off in the marketplace. So
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  6. Steven Johnson _ How We Got to Now: Six

    Semmelweis was derided and dismissed not just for daring to propose that doctors wash their hands; he was derided and dismissed for proposing that doctors wash their hands if they wanted to deliver babies and dissect corpses in the same afternoon. This
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  7. Steven Johnson _ How We Got to Now: Six

    If we think that innovation comes from a lone genius inventing a new technology from scratch, that model naturally steers us toward certain policy decisions, like stronger patent protection. But if we think that innovation comes out of collaborative networks, then we want to support different policies and organizational forms: less rigid patent laws, open standards, employee participation in stock plans, cross-disciplinary connections.
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