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Biographie de Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson is the author of the US bestseller Mind Wide Open. His previous book, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and software, was named as one of the best voices of 2001 by Esquire, The Village Voice, Amazon.com and Discover magazine. It was named as a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. Johnson is also the author of the 1997 book Interface culture. Johnson's writing bas appeared in the New Yorker, Nation, Harper's and the Guardian, as well as the op-ed pages of The New York Times and the Wall Street journal. He writes the monthly `Emerging Technology' column for Discover magazine, and is a Contributing editor to Wired. The co-founder of the award-winning websids or ED and Plastic.com, Johnson teaches at New York University's interactive Telecommunications Program, and has degrees in Semiotics and English Literature from Brown and Columbia Universities. He lives in New York City with his wife and two sons. Steven Johnson also hosts a web log at www.stevenberlinjohnson. com.