Background
Bob Johnstone was born on September 3, 1951.
(In We Were Burning, investigative journalist Bob Johnston...)
In We Were Burning, investigative journalist Bob Johnstone demolishes this misleading stereotype by introducing us to a new and very different kind of Japanese worker - a dynamic, iconoclastic, risk-taking entrepreneur. Johnstone has tracked down Japan's invisible entrepreneurs and persuaded them to tell their stories. He presents here a wealth of new material, including interviews with key players past and present, which lifts the veil that has hitherto obscured the entrepreneurial nature of Japanese companies like Canon, Casio, Seiko, Sharp, and Yamaha.
https://www.amazon.com/Were-Burning-Entrepreneurs-Electronic-Revolution/dp/0465091172/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?keywords=We+Were+Burning%3A+Japanese+Entrepreneurs+and+the+Forging+of+the+Electronic+Age&qid=1577433380&s=digital-text&sr=8-2-fkmr0
1999
(Bob Johnstone provides a definitive answer to the conundr...)
Bob Johnstone provides a definitive answer to the conundrum of computers in the classroom. His conclusion: we owe it to our kids to educate them in the medium of their time. In this book, he tells the extraordinary story of the world's first laptop school.
https://www.amazon.com/Never-Mind-Laptops-Computers-Transformation-ebook/dp/B0791M434R/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Never+Mind+the+Laptops%3A+Kids%2C+Computers%2C+and+the+Transformation+of+Learning&qid=1577433445&sr=8-1
2003
(Bob Johnstone takes you on a tour of the schools, classro...)
Bob Johnstone takes you on a tour of the schools, classrooms, and minds of teachers who have successfully incorporated computers into a host of learning situations across the content areas. Through Johnstone’s extensive interviews with practicing teachers, the reader will find out how programs common to many computers - such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - can teach students powerful concepts about print, publication, and presentation while they’re doing math or language arts.
https://www.amazon.com/Have-Computers-My-Classroom-Now-What/dp/0325008744/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=i+have+computers+on+my+classroom%E2%80%94now+what%3F&qid=1577433592&sr=8-1-fkmr0
2006
(Brilliant! tells the story of Shuji Nakamura, a gifted Ja...)
Brilliant! tells the story of Shuji Nakamura, a gifted Japanese engineer who came out of nowhere to stun the world with his announcement that he had created the last piece in the puzzle needed for manufacturing solid-state white lights. The invention of this holy-grail product, which promises to make Edison’s light bulb obsolete, had eluded the best minds at the top electronic firms for twenty-five years.
https://www.amazon.com/Brilliant-Nakamura-Revolution-Lighting-Technology-ebook/dp/B003MP8PDE/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Brilliant%21%3A+Shuji+Nakamura+and+the+Revolution+in+Lighting+Technology&qid=1577434157&sr=8-1
2007
Bob Johnstone was born on September 3, 1951.
Science and technology writer Bob Johnstone was born in Scotland and lives in Australia, covering electronics topics in the Far East for various magazines. In addition to journalism, Johnstone also writes book-length works on technology. He conducted some one hundred interviews while researching his book We Were Burning. Japanese success in business is often attributed to that country's team management style, but Johnston credits the risk-takers and entrepreneurs who brought Japan to the forefront of the consumer electronics industry during the 1980s. Critics say, his book illuminates the differences between the United States and Japanese company culture. Johnstone's book relates how the disarmament pacts that followed World War II allowed Japanese engineers and scientists to concentrate on the consumer rather than military projects. At that time transistor technology was in its infancy, and antitrust legislation required some major American companies to license patents to Japanese interests. The Japanese Ministry of International Trade is often given credit for the country's rise in the electronics industry, but Johnstone points out that in fact, the government bureaucracy prevented Sony from becoming the first company to get the transistor radio on the market. He also notes that Japanese entrepreneurs did not merely copy American technology, but in many cases adapted and improved technology abandoned by American firms.
Johnstone profiles both well-known and little-known engineers and scientists, such as Seiko's Yamazaki Yoshio, Sony co-founder Morita Akio, Sasaki Tadashi, whose concentration on miniaturization led to the handheld calculator, and Kuwano Yukinori, whose independent research in amorphous materials resulted in the solar-powered calculator. Johnstone also provides histories of other Japanese companies, including Canon, Yamaha, and Casio, and includes contributions made by the United States firms. He predicts that the Japanese economy will continue to prosper in the future, inspired by the entrepreneurs who have contributed, often without recognition, to the country's rise as a financial power.
In Johnstone's 2007 title, Brilliant!, Johnstone features another Japanese, the inventor who developed light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, in 1993 after rival researchers had been working on the problem for decades. Johnstone demonstrates how Nakamura's invention ultimately is leading to a revolution in solid-state lighting, which consumes far less electricity than other lighting and lasts for upwards of 100,000 hours. As with We Were Burning, Brilliant! relies heavily on personal interviews for much of the text, in which the author creates a powerful blend of science and biography.
(Brilliant! tells the story of Shuji Nakamura, a gifted Ja...)
2007(In We Were Burning, investigative journalist Bob Johnston...)
1999(Bob Johnstone takes you on a tour of the schools, classro...)
2006(Bob Johnstone provides a definitive answer to the conundr...)
2003
