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Taking a Peek Inside "The Innovator's Cookbook" (Encore presentation.)

On this edition of ST, which originally aired last fall, we welcome back Steven Johnson, the bestselling and award-winning author of several books on science and technology. Johnson --- who's also founded some influential websites over the years, among them Outside.in and Plastic.com --- tells us about an anthology he's put together, now available in paperback, called "The Innovator's Cookbook: Essentials for Inventing What Is Next." It's a collection of essays and conversations that Johnson edited and wrote an introduction for; in the book, we find insightful (and invariably interesting) writings from the likes of Stewart Brand, Clayton Christensen, Richard Florida, Peter Drucker, and others. And the book's transcribed conversations include innovation-focused dialogues involving Ray Ozzie, Katie Salen, Tom Kelley, and Brian Eno.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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