Summary of Steven Johnson video

In this video, Steven Johnson is talking about the picture of grand cafe he took at the distance of 10 blocks. It is the first coffeehouse that open in England in 1650. He said that the English coffeehouse was crucial to the development and spread of one of the great intellectual flowerings of the last 500 years, which is now called the Enlightenment. Coffeehouse played such a big role in the birth of the Enlightenment, because before the spread of coffee and tea through British culture, what people drank was alcohol. In the 1650 era, alcohol was the daytime beverage of choice. There is another thing that makes the coffeehouse important, it is the architecture of the space. It was a space where people would get together from different backgrounds, different fields of expertise, and share. After that he talked about the guy named Timothy Prestero who owned an organization called Design That Matters. He also talked about a researcher named Kevin Dunbar. Then he talked about the history of GPS.