Mr. Johnson, a motivational speaker, analyzed inventions and innovations as a product of collective thoughts being brought into one contest to produce something way meaningful. In the human consciousness, it is a bit hard to think of someone’s achievement as a collective effort. Looking at this issue in Steven Johnson’s way over-looks the popular norm that glorifies individuality.
Individuality has being promoted by so many cultures, especially the American culture. Yet, individuality has never being practiced by the American people. Obviously, no man can remain an island. Humans depend on each other to exist.
Over the years innovations were brought out by one or more individuals, but these grandeurs innovations were the products of studying, human- to human interactions, seeing, thinking, and exploring the products of other people’s work.
Today, the internet and all it social media have become a means that more ideas could be shared. Every day people post millions, or even more, documents- researches, ideas, products, and all sorts of things on the internet- making the accessibility of ideas easier. The fluidity of ideas through the internet have made the world aware of new technology, and helped researchers in other part of the world see a baseline to new researches and exploration of more ideas.