How We Got to Now : Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

from figre

Any time a book tries to popularize science there is very little chance it will be fantastic. I'm not trying to make any comment other than popularization of any kind has a tendency to bring delivery of the subject to a lower common denominator. Now, throw in that a book wants to cover a number o...

from farquhj

Upon finishing the book I discovered that this was published in coordination with a PBS series. I will have to investigate that further as the stories brought to life in the text would play well on video. The six innovations: Glass, Cold, Sound, Clean, Time and Light make excellent conversational...

from Schmerguls

5643. How We Got to Now Six Innovations That Made the Modern World, by Steven Johnson (read 9 Aug 2019) This book, published in 2014, gives the six innovations as glass, cold, sound, clean, time and light. With good insight he discusses developments in each of those areas which have led to the go...

from jcvogan1

Entertaining. A bit more narrative and a bit too little engineering for my taste, but well written.

from Oberon

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson This book is the companion book to a new PBS series of the same name. I really wanted to give this book a five star review but am going to knock it back a star. My complaint about the book is three fold: 1) large sect...