Future Perfect : The Case For Progress In A Networked Age (Paperback)

from Jaylia3

In Future Perfect author Steven Johnson describes in detail an emerging political movement or philosophical worldview he names peer progressive. According to Johnson, peer progressives are in favor of decentralized, distributed networks with no single command center-similar to the internet but no...

from snash

Johnson provides an interesting approach to tackling societal problems based on broad, diverse, and egalitarian input and distribution of information, using the internet as system model. The examples are interesting and encouraging. It's certainly an approach worthy of consideration. His enthusia...

from JBD1

Steven Johnson's latest is Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age (Riverhead, 2012). It's an optimistic meditation on how "peer progressive" values (as Johnson coins them) might be able to transform everything from government to medicine to the mass media. While I confess I'm no...

from jbrown4343

Johnson is a "big idea" guy, or should I say that he is THE self-proclaimed big idea guy. In this book, he has revealed research and case studies involving peer to peer networking. My brain lit up as I read about the progress we have already made by thinking together and sharing information in ou...

from Fogcityite

I'm a fan of Steven Johnson's work. I think in interdisciplinary webs and networks rather than silos, and his work reflects that approach. This book is no exception. Future Perfect is Johnson's look at networking - through the internet, sure, but in other, lower tech ways as well - as infrastruct...