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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Steven Johnson

Writer on innovation networks, emergent ideas, and how environments cultivate unexpected combinations.

Why this matters

Johnson popularizes how good ideas arrive through collision and sediment—not lone genius certainty.

Works

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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Johnson, Steven. *The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World*. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.

Related books

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What We Cannot See

Bias, Judgment, and the Limits of Perspective

Why every perspective is necessarily partial, how individuals make responsible judgments despite those limitations, and why integration allows groups to construct understanding that exceeds any single person's perspective.