Combining the deft social analysis of Where GUIDELINES Come From using the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good For You, NY Times bestselling author Steven Johnson’s Future Perfect makes the court case that a new model of political change is on the rise, transforming from local governments to classrooms, from protest movements to health care. Johnson paints a compelling family portrait of this new political worldview — affected from the success and interconnectedness from the about Future Perfect: The Case For Progress WITHIN A Networked Age group Internet, however, not reliant on high-tech solutions — that breaks with the conventional types of liberal or traditional thinking.

With his acclaimed gift for multi-disciplinary storytelling and big ideas, Johnson explores this new vision of improvement through a series of fascinating narratives: through the “miracle over the Hudson” to the look from the French railway system; from the fight against malnutrition in Vietnam to a incomprehensible outbreak of strange smells in downtown Manhattan; from underground music video performers to the invention of the web itself.

At a time when the traditional wisdom holds that the political system is hopelessly gridlocked with old ideas, Future Perfect makes the timely and inspiring case that progress is still possible, which new solutions are increasing. That is a hopeful, affirmative perspective for future years, from one of the very most brilliant and inspiring visionaries of modern culture.