The Fashion Industry Sparked the Industrial Revolution
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The Fashion Industry Sparked the Industrial Revolution
The Long Now Foundation - SFJazz Center
"You will find the future wherever people are having the most fun," Johnson argues. He chronicles how, throughout history, world-transforming innovation emerges from the endless quest for novelty in seemingly trivial entertainments--fashion, music, spices, magic, taverns, zoos, games. He celebrates the observation of historian Johan Huizinga, "Civilization arises and unfolds in and as play."
Steven Johnson is the leading historian of creativity. His books include Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World; How We Got To Now; Where Good Ideas Come From; and Everything Bad Is Good For You.
The Long Now Foundation - SFJazz Center
"You will find the future wherever people are having the most fun," Johnson argues. He chronicles how, throughout history, world-transforming innovation emerges from the endless quest for novelty in seemingly trivial entertainments--fashion, music, spices, magic, taverns, zoos, games. He celebrates the observation of historian Johan Huizinga, "Civilization arises and unfolds in and as play."
Steven Johnson is the leading historian of creativity. His books include Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World; How We Got To Now; Where Good Ideas Come From; and Everything Bad Is Good For You.