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The MacBook Air & 'Where Good Ideas Come From'

By Joshua Kim October 20, 2010 9:01 pm EDT 
 
...On the same day that I finish Johnson's amazing book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, Apple releases the MacBook Air.
Apple breaks our rules about how innovation is supposed to happen. We all believe nowadays in the power of transparency, openness, failing fast, the wisdom of crowds, the power of open networks, the strength of weak ties, and the wiki approach to collaboration and creation. Johnson's book clarifies, interrogates, and elucidates these ideas - tracing the history of innovation through the lens of networks and collaboration as opposed to lone geniuses or profit driven inventions. From Darwin to the Web, public health to GPS devices, disruptive ideas are best birthed and nurtured in a collaborative, loose and open ecosystem as opposed to a closed lab. ... more