How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life...
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From the New York Times–bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyist
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Format: Kindle Edition
ISBN:
9780698154506
ASIN: B00INIXU5I
Publisher: Riverhead
Pages no: 289
Edition language: English
How We Got To Now takes you through how small discoveries changed the wrold, from sound to cold, to light, you name it. Someone discovered how something worked, and it took off and changed the world into how it is today. This was a series I saw on PBS some time ago, so I heard some of it before. ...
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