Want to know how our battle against dirt created the flat screen and the iPhone? Or why has the garage become an emblem of innovation?
In a brand new live interview series with the Financial Times’ Undercover Economist Tim Harford, he invites the science author who explained why video games are good for us - Steven Johnson, to discuss the journeys of six innovations that helped create the modern world - GLASS, COLD, SOUND, CLEAN, TIME, and LIGHT – as presented in his latest book, How We Got To Now.
Join us on 4 November at Kings Place London as Johnson and Harford look at the full range of consequences, the good and the bad, that arose from these inventions such as the vacuum tube, which brought the world jazz but also helped amplify the Nuremberg rallies and ultrasound.
Don’t miss an evening that will celebrate the power of seemingly small, whimsical ideas, fancies, feelings, and hunches that have contributed to the development of the modern world.
Standard Ticket only - £19
Standard Ticket + Book - £35 and includes a signed hardback copy of How We Got To Now (RRP £20)
Presented in association with Aviva Investors
Timings:
18:30 Doors open
19:00 Interview with Steven Johnson
20:30 Close
18:30 Doors open
19:00 Interview with Steven Johnson
20:30 Close
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Steven Johnson has 1.5 million Twitter followers, and regularly writes for major publications like Time, WIRED and the Wall Street Journal. He is the bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From, The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map, and Everything Bad Is Good for You, as well as editor of the anthology The Innovator's Cookbook. He is the founder of a variety of influential websites, and most recently, outside.in. |
| Tim Harford is economics leader writer for the Financial Times and writes the “Undercover Economist” columns on Saturdays.
Tim’s book, The Undercover Economist, is a Business Week bestseller, a Sunday Times bestseller, and was number one on Amazon.co.uk. It has been translated into sixteen languages and its sequel The Undercover Economist Strikes Back was released in 2013.
Tim is also the presenter of the BBC2 series, Trust Me, I’m an Economist.
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A FIVE-PART SERIES ON HOW WE GOT TO NOW IS COMING TO BBC2 IN 2015.
