the coffeehouse of this period.
And coffeehouses were very often specialists in particular subjects.
and coffeehouses .
This is a coffeehouse .
This is because a coffeehouse is where you went to read stuff and discuss it.
So Jonathan's Coffeehouse , where people when to discuss share prices and to make deals turns into the London Stock Exchange.
Lloyd's Coffeehouse turns into Lloyd's of London, the first insurance market.
It goes from coffeehouse to insurance market.
in their story a coffeehouse .
but this London coffeehouse was absolutely just an amazingly historic place for so many different reasons, and there's no record of it anywhere, except there is a Starbucks basically
And the coffeehouses in England were fantastically alluring social media environments.
in the coffeehouses .
If you look at the coffeehouse culture, there's an amazingly fertile, intellectual environment because it allowed people and ideas to mix in ways they
became a platform that sustained alongside the coffeehouse , a lot of the great, amazing, extraordinary, world-changing innovations of the enlightenment, because you had a whole
Some people actually complained that coffeehouses were too alluring, luring people away from more constructive things that they might be doing, which
What you were supposed to do is go to the coffeehouse and read all the stuff that they had, which would be news books and pamphlets
And they used to go to the Rainbow Coffeehouse .
Lloyd's of London starts off as a coffeehouse where marine shippers meet and discuss insurance.
Similarly, there's another coffeehouse called Jonathan's where all the stock traders would meet that turns into the London Stock Exchange.
books, is the coffeehouse of the 18th Century. The coffeehouse , particularly in London and Paris and in Vienna and a little bit in Boston and United States, the coffeehouse was a tremendous
So if you look at what people said about coffeehouses in the 1670s in Oxford, there was great concern that students were spending all of their time
And this was a pamphlet from 1673 criticizing coffeehouses and ironically distributed in coffeehouses , saying that they were "great enemies to diligence
So people are prepared to say things in coffeehouses that maybe they wouldn't in more formal circumstances.
The Royal Society came out of meetings held in coffeehouses by scientists.
So all of this innovation comes out of coffeehouses , because they're very fertile environments where people and ideas can mix.
So the Twitter pushes the same button for me as coffeehouses did for the Samuel Pepys.
He describes the amazing things he learned when we went to the coffeehouse .
And Isaac Newton actually writes "Principia Mathematica" in order to settle a coffeehouse argument between Hooke, Halley, and Wren.
Forward-looking companies are trying to work out how to recreate the spirit of the coffeehouse internally.
And what new media has done is brought back the spirit of the coffeehouse and the other social platforms that were around before the advent of mass media.
were going to be just addling their brains with coffee and sharing information in coffeehouses .
So you can see all these chaps with their hats on and their wigs in a coffeehouse .
So you have to sort of filter this massive load of information by going to the right coffeehouse .
If you look at the diary of Samuel Pepys, he's often saying thanks to the coffeehouse .
And my favorite example, the Royal Society grows out of coffeehouse discussions by great scientists in Oxford and then later in London as well.
Isaac Newton writes "Principa Mathematica," the foundation stone of modern science in order to settle a coffeehouse argument between Hook, Haley, and Rand
And so you have all of these unexpected collisions of ideas and of people taking place in coffeehouses .
But actually, if you look at what came out of coffeehouses , it turned out to be completely wrong.
previously hadn't. And look at what came out of the late 17th century coffeehouses , things like the financial revolution.
So now Sapna and Vinay Mohan Acharya, they have crossed over from the temple, and they are sitting in a coffeehouse ,
When Ben Franklin would hang out at the London coffeehouse near St.
And that's part of the reason why people with hobbies are so innovative in their careers; it's because hobbies, in a sense, give you that kind of coffeehouse