Curating Content To Support Learning About Humanity's Transition

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Steven Johnson – Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World

“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 (Homo Ludens), “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”.

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