How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (770 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00M8HDQ9K |
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| Number of Pages | : | 483 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Accompanied by a major six-part television series on PBS, How We Got to Now is the story of collaborative networks building the modern world, written in the provocative, informative, and engaging style that has earned Johnson fans around the globe.. From the New York Times best-selling 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 volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyegla
Excellent, well written and very informative I found this book to be well written, entertaining and very informative. I have not previously read any of Stephen Johnson's books, but now I will be on the lookout for them. This book reminded me of the books by James Burke, "The Day the Universe Changed" and "Connections", which discuss the complex evolution of technology, and the interactions of events leading to our modern world. "How We Got To Here" focuses more on innovation than Burke's books, but like t. The Hummingbird Effect Random knowledge is sort of my thing. I am somewhat fixated on knowing a little about a lot. The world is so vast and there is so much information out there.Though we may deem some knowledge as random, no knowledge is truly random when you pull back far enough. Everything is interconnected in some way and many times they are connected in very unexpected ways.In How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson you get a fascinating image of our world. The butterfly effect is. Charles said Modestly Interesting; But Simple, and Maybe Simplistic. “How We Got To Now” is competent enough, but it feels threadbare. It feels like a narrative designed to punctuate a picture show that is missing its pictures. It probably feels that way because it is that way—it was written to accompany a PBS television series (which is flacked on the cover of the book), and, unfortunately, without the moving pictures, the book doesn’t stand on its own very well.The dedication of the book is “For J