Interactive Telecommunications

Education

BA, Brown University
MA, Columbia University

Biography

Steven Johnson is the author of Mind Wide Open (Scribner) and Emergence: The Connected Lives Of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Scribner), acclaimed as one of the best books of 2001 by Esquire, The Village Voice, Amazon.com, and Discover Magazine. The UK Guardian called Emergence "intelligent, witty and tremendously thought-provoking," and it was named as a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. Johnson was also co-founder and editor-in-chief of FEED, the pioneering online magazine, as well as a co-creator of the Webby-award-winning community site, Plastic.com. He was named by Newsweek as one of the "50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet." Johnson's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Wired, Lingua Franca, Harper's, and the London Guardian, as well as on the op-ed pages of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He has made numerous television and radio appearances as a technology commentator, including "ABC World News Tonight," "Charlie Rose," and NPR. The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani called his first book, Interface Culture, "one of the most thoughtful, literate studies yet published on the cultural impact of recent technological changes." Johnson has degrees in Semiotics and English Literature from Brown and Columbia Universities. He lives in Manhattan's West Village with his wife and son.