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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
An exploration of environments that lead to breakthrough innovation, in science, technology, business, and the arts. I conceived it as the closing book in a trilogy on innovative thinking, after Ghost Map and Invention. But in a way, it completes an investigation that runs through all the books. Sold more copies in hardcover than anything else I've written.
The Invention of Air
The story of the British radical chemist Joseph Priestley, who ended up having a Zelig-like role in the American Revolution. My version of a founding fathers book, and a reminder that most of the Enlightenment was driven by open source ideals.
The Ghost Map
The latest: the story of a terrifying outbreak of cholera in 1854 London 1854 that ended up changing the world. An idea book wrapped around a page-turner. I like to think of it as a sequel to Emergence if Emergence had been a disease thriller. You can see a trailer for the book here.
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
The title says it all. This one sparked a slightly insane international conversation about the state of pop culture -- and particularly games. There were more than a few dissenters, but the response was more positive than I had expected. And it got me on The Daily Show, which made it all worthwhile.
Mind Wide Open : Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
My first best-seller, and the only book I've written in which I appear as a recurring character, subjecting myself to a battery of humiliating brain scans. The last chapter on Freud and the neuroscientific model of the mind is one of my personal favorites.
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
The story of bottom-up intelligence, from slime mold to Slashdot. Probably the most critically well-received all my books, and the one that has influenced the most eclectic mix of fields: political campaigns, web business models, urban planning, the war on terror.
Interface Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate
My first. The book I wrote instead of finishing my dissertation. Still in print almost a decade later, and still relevant, I think. But I haven't read it in a while, so who knows what's in there!
Steven, I think I remember reading in one of the obituaries for Bergman that he was a big fan of all your books. Or was it Antonioni?
Posted by: Alex Ross | August 06, 2007 at 08:48 PM
I *devoured* 'Neuromancer', first time round. One of those novels that have left a small hole in my memory, indicating I was entirely on autopilot for half a day.
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You're right, it's very cool. :)
Posted by: Mikeachim | August 12, 2007 at 05:48 AM
Fitz--I personally was MUCH more impressed to see you in Zander's copy of "Muse" a couple of months ago. Excerpted in a highbrow kids magazine--that's when you know you've really made it. I'm not kidding. Zander was first dubious, then astonished when I told him (after he'd read the article and said, "Mom, this is so cool, you've got to check this out") that I knew you....
Always a thrill to surprise one's preternaturally cynical 11 year old with one's college chums....
Posted by: Fernanda Moore | August 16, 2007 at 05:53 PM
Very cool I just re-read pattern recornition, I'll have to add you book to my amazon wish list.
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Posted by: frauen | August 29, 2007 at 10:50 AM
If I'm not experiencing some kind of senior moment, which--admittedly--is highly possible, he also mentioned this in a one-page profile in The New York Times magazine recently - I thought of you when I read that in the Times - congratulations. Very cool, indeed!
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