Steven Johnson
Author of Interface Culture

We had a chat with him Monday, November 17. You can read a transcript here.

Is the role once played by novelists now held by the interface designer? Do flying toasters and Microsoft Bob occupy the cultural niche that Charles Dickens once filled, explaining our world to ourselves? In Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate, Steven Johnson charts the vital role that interface design plays in modern society.

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Interface Culture
How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate
by Steven Johnson
(HarperEdge, 1997, $24.00)

Steven Johnson has been named one of the most influential people in cyberspace by Newsweek, New York Magazine, and Websight magazine. He is the editor-in-chief and cofounder of Feed, the award-winning online cultural magazine. Johnson has degrees in semiotics from Brown University and in English literature from Columbia University. He lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side.