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Also by Steven Johnson:

How We Got to Now, October 2014
Hardcover
Future Perfect, September 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Where Good Ideas Come From, October 2010
Hardcover
The Invention of Air, January 2009
Hardcover
The Ghost Map, October 2006
Hardcover
Everything Bad Is Good for You, May 2006
Hardcover

Future Perfect
Steven Johnson

Riverhead
September 2012
On Sale: September 18, 2012
272 pages
ISBN: 1594488207
EAN: 9781594488207
Kindle: B0085DP4OG
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction

Combining the deft social analysis of Where Good Ideas Come From with the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good For You, New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson’s Future Perfect makes the case that a new model of political change is on the rise, transforming everything from local governments to classrooms, from protest movements to health care. Johnson paints a compelling portrait of this new political worldview -- influenced by the success and interconnectedness of the Internet, but not dependent on high-tech solutions -- that breaks with the conventional categories of liberal or conservative thinking.

With his acclaimed gift for multi-disciplinary storytelling and big ideas, Johnson explores this new vision of progress through a series of fascinating narratives: from the “miracle on the Hudson” to the planning of the French railway system; from the battle against malnutrition in Vietnam to a mysterious outbreak of strange smells in downtown Manhattan; from underground music video artists to the invention of the Internet itself.

At a time when the conventional wisdom holds that the political system is hopelessly gridlocked with old ideas, Future Perfect makes the timely and inspiring case that progress is still possible, and that new solutions are on the rise. This is a hopeful, affirmative outlook for the future, from one of the most brilliant and inspiring visionaries of contemporary culture.

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