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Monday In Class<\/a> What were your ideas about how innovation happens before you read this book.\u00a0 What makes a good engineer?\u00a0 Did this book change them?\u00a0 How?\u00a0 Could this book have been written before the Internet?\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 What does this tell us?<\/p>\n Who is Johnson?\u00a0 Is he a professor at a university?<\/p>\n Does it make sense to you to study \u201cgood ideas\u201d instead of \u201cinventions\u201d\u00a0 ?\u00a0 Why\/why not?\u00a0 What does that tell us about the relation of engineering to other areas of creativity?\u00a0 Do you think there are fundamental similarities between them?\u00a0 In what ways?\u00a0 \u00a0Music, art, \u2026<\/p>\n It it reasonable to use evolution to study technology?\u00a0 What does that mean about how we think about technology?<\/p>\n What does the \u201cadjacent possible\u201d mean?\u00a0 Why didn\u2019t Babbages\u2019s Analytical Engine make it?\u00a0 How is the adjacent possible different for us than it was 50 years ago?<\/p>\n Is space really a multiple–US vs. USSR?<\/p>\n You are Stephen Johnson with a time machine.\u00a0\u00a0 You want to study the innovations behind the Apollo program.\u00a0 Where do you set the dial? \u00a0\u00a0Where do you look?\u00a0 What do you think you would see?<\/p>\n Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox \u00a0and Stephen Johnson discuss the Apollo program. \u00a0How do you think their conversation would go?<\/p>\n What is the difference (in personal terms) between being in a gaseous network, a solid network and a liquid network?\u00a0 Have you ever been in one of these?\u00a0 (In a work or learning environment?)\u00a0 Why does he call cities a liquid network?\u00a0 What did it lead to?\u00a0\u00a0 Why does he think cities are more innovative than other places?\u00a0 Is NC State a liquid network?\u00a0 Why or why not?<\/p>\n How would you define a platform? \u00a0What platforms are relevant to you?\u00a0 Why are they important?\u00a0 What different scales do platforms work on?\u00a0 Why does Johnson see exaptation as so important?\u00a0 Can you think of other examples of exaptation, either in history or in your own life?<\/p>\n Next month, researchers in Chemistry, Physics, Medicine and Economics will be honored with the world\u2019s highest intellectual honor, the Nobel Prize.\u00a0 (Note that no more than three people can be awarded a Nobel Prize in a year in any one discipline.)\u00a0 Nobel Prize==should we give it at all?\u00a0 Could we think of it as harmful in the sense that it perpetuates a misunderstanding of how creativity works.\u00a0 \u00a0Jeff Bezos has given a billion dollars to endow a new prize for creativity.\u00a0 He knows that you are a careful student of Steven Johnson and creativity and has hired you as a consultant.\u00a0 He is paying you one million dollars for your thoughts so should really be good ones.\u00a0 How should this prize be structured?\u00a0 How should we determine who gets the prize?<\/p>\n Based on Johnson’s book, what would you say are the characteristics of a good engineer?\u00a0 What are three practical things you can do to implement some of Johnson’s ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For Monday\u00a0 Chapters 1-4,\u00a0 For Wednesday the rest of book Monday In Class Also for Wednesday: \u00a0Eric Betzig’s Life Over the Microscope,\u00a0New York Times\u00a0August 28. 2015 Do you see elements of Steven Johnson’s ideas in Eric Betzig’s career?\u00a0 Where? What were your ideas about how innovation happens before you read this book.\u00a0 What makes a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":548,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAlso for Wednesday: \u00a0Eric Betzig’s Life Over the Microscope,\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>August 28. 2015<\/a>
\nDo you see elements of Steven Johnson’s ideas in Eric Betzig’s career?\u00a0 Where?<\/p>\n