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Steven Johnson (1) has been aliased into Steven Berlin Johnson.

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Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984 (2001) — Contributor — 161 copies
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 (2018) — Contributor — 109 copies

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Legal name
Johnson, Steven Berlin
Birthdate
1968-06-06
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Places of residence
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Occupations
writer
website creator
Organizations
Outside.in
Agent
Lydia Wills
Short biography
Steven Johnson is the author of seven books on the intersection of science, technology and personal experience. He is a contributing editor to Wired magazine and is the 2009 Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at The Journalism School, Columbia University. He lives in Marin County, California with his wife and three sons.

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The Ghost Map - Group Read in 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (April 2013)

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A very informative account of the London 1850s cholera outbreak. The author presents the facts well and rounds them of with well-placed literary examples from Dickens. There are good comparatives with evolutionary biology on how a society functions.
All in all a very important book and definitely commendable.
 
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nitrolpost | 192 other reviews | Mar 19, 2024 |
Great start of a book but the author doesn’t carry through a d doesn’t justify the title which seems to promise cimpleteness.

The book is a fun romp across connected technologies and how they enabled each other leading to deep changes in culture and society.
 
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yates9 | 46 other reviews | Feb 28, 2024 |
The author reviews the key factors which drove up life expectancy and how they came to be. The story is a perfect “science” communication piece because the author takes apart these factors into what it really rakes for knowledge to become life saving practice.

There are many important things to note:
- how culturally we celebrate wars so much more than health innovation which saves lives
- how we believe that private sector delivers results in health innovation when it is mostly been able to deliver distribution
- how health innovation is so much more complicated than the science alone because how it translates to policy makes all the difference
- how dogma even in the science community can make it hard to deliver health

Basically the vision of how science impacts health in the public is so different from what actually happened and how technology impacted life expectancy. Pretty much everyone should be aware of this history, particularly in a pandemic.

Good health needs passionate evidence based drivers, and a practical public policy translation…
… (more)
 
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