Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How Stuff Works.com.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lam.

And I'm Julie Douglas.

And we have a treat for you here this week because we are talking to an expert.

We're talking to a man who definitely knows a way around innovation, around the history

of innovation and how we work as an innovative species.

This man, he goes by the name of Stephen Johnson.

He has a book out called How We Got To Now, Six Innovations That Made the Modern World.

He has a corresponding PBS series which airs on Wednesdays from October 15th through

November 12th at 10-9 Central.

So we've talked about him before.

Stephen Johnson has written a bunch of books and you may be familiar with him already

with his TED Talk, which is called Where Good Ideas Come From.

And it is a musty if you haven't already.

This is the Coffee House Talk.

For those of you who just have kind of an in and out familiarity with the various TED Talks

of the past.

This is the one that was like, people stop drinking beer, they started drinking coffee

and hanging out in coffee houses and they started getting all these crazy ideas, their ideas,

started breeding with one another and producing hybrid ideas and that this is kind of the

soup of innovation.

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