In his videos and books Steven Johnson introduces a new way of analyzing where these great ideas and innovations mankind has had throughout history. He proves how we all work together and that people use other ideas or what is around them in the environment to create new ones. An example of this is the baby incubator used in nursing facilities made from car parts. Also how we used satellites to locate objects in our atmosphere and inverted this into locating objects on the earths surface through the satellites in the sky. These are examples of how we build on what we already have to create things that are relatively new to our society. In addition another brave point Johnson makes is the importance of protecting these ideas equally balanced with connecting with other ideas to create new ones.