How we got to now with steven johnson is a six part documentary series that reveals the story behind the remarkable ideas that made modern life possible. How we got to now is a fastpaced, wideranging exploration of the history of six pivotal technologies that have shaped the modern age. A companion book was published by riverhead books and a companion website has been created to explore present day innovations. Steven johnson is the bestselling author of eleven books, including where good ideas come from, wonderland, and the ghost map. Chapter by chapter, we come to understand and share katie and erics intense parental obsession with devons athletic career. Six innovations that made the modern world reprint edition. Each chapter is colorfully illustrated and chopped up into several parts, each highlighting a part of the innovation chain that leads to the modern day. Six innovations that made the modern world by johnson, steven isbn.
From steven johnson, the bestselling author of where good ideas come from, comes how we got to now, the companion book to his sixpart bbc one. Contributing editor to wired magazine and bestselling author of seven books, steven johnson, provides the readers with a real treat. From death rays to digital music this is a pleasing survey of innovations that have made the modern world. A week on your nightstand is probably all that it will take to enjoy this book. By the time you reach the end of steven johnsons latest book on innovation, you re apt to find yourself exhilarated and a little bit fatigued. How we got to now divides technological history into six thematic areas glass, cold, sound, cleanliness, time and light. From steven johnson, the bestselling author of where good ideas come from, comes how we got to now, the companion book to his sixpart. How we got to now is full of nifty connections like these stories that illustrate obscure chains of causality that shaped the modern world. How we got to now, by steven johnson the new york times. From the new york timesbestselling author of where good. Accompanied by a major sixpart 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.
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