HOW WE GOT TO NOW

In How We Got to Now, Steven Johnson traces six essential innovations that made the modern world/ from their origins in ancient his tory to the technological advancements of recent years. He uncovers a surprising history of pivotal scientific breakthroughs made b y amateurs and entrepreneurs through the centuries: from the Parisian printer who invented the 'phonautograph' to record sound decad es before Eddison, to a businessman's audacious and unannounced intervention of adding chlorine to his city's reservoirs in order to keep hi...[Read more]