How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Johnson, Steven (2014) Hardcover

Johnson, Steven

ISBN 10: 1846148537 / ISBN 13: 9781846148538

Published by Particular Books, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Johnson, Steven (2014) Hardcover
• Publisher: Particular Books
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846148537
• ISBN 13: 9781846148538
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Very good

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Synopsis

'Light bulbs, sound recordings, air-conditioning, a glass of clean tap water, a wristwatch, a glass lens': these everyday things are the subjects of Johnson's book. In six chapters on glass, cold, sound, clean, time and light he traces the histories of problems and the attempts to solve them - from Galileo's watching a pendulum swing in Pisa cathedral to atomic clocks keeping time in microseconds - and he considers how these scientific innovations have set in motion social change.

About the Author

Steven Johnson is the author of the bestsellers Where Good Ideas Come From, The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map, Everything Bad Is Good for You, Mind Wide Open, Emergence, and Interface Culture, and is the editor of the anthology The Innovator’s Cookbook. He is the founder of a variety of influential websites and writes for Time, Wired, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Johnson lives in Marin County, California, with his wife and three sons.