How We Got to Now Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Steven Johnson
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
105

How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson Book Summary

Did you drink a glass of water today? Did you turn on a light? Did you think about how miraculous either one of those things is when you did it? Of course not--but you should, and New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson has. This adaptation of his adult book and popular PBS series explores the fascinating and interconnected stories of innovations--like clean drinking water and electricity--that changed the way people live.

Innovation starts with a problem whose solution sets in motion all kinds of unexpected discoveries. That's why you can draw a line from pendulums to punching the clock at a factory, from ice blocks to summer movie blockbusters, from clean water to computer chips.

In the lively storytelling style that has made him a popular, bestselling author, Steven Johnson looks at how accidental genius, brilliant mistakes, and unintended consequences shape the way we live in the modern world. Johnson's "long zoom" approach connects history, geography, politics, and scientific advances with the deep curiousity of inventors or quirky interests of tinkerers to show how innovation truly comes about.

His fascinating account is organized into six topics: glass, cold, sound, clean, time, light. Johnson's fresh exploration of these simple, single-syllable word concepts creates an endlessly absorbing story that moves from lightning strikes in the prehistoric desert to the herculean effort to literally raise up the city of Chicago to laser labs straight out of a sci-fi movie.

In other words, it's the story of how we got to now!

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Book Name How We Got to Now
Genre Computers & Tech for Kids
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 79.55 MB

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Summary of How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson

The How We Got to Now book written by Steven Johnson was published on 16 October 2018, Tuesday in the Computers & Tech for Kids category. A total of 105 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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