WONDERLAND

From the New York Timesbestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at the world-changing innovat ions we made while keeping ourselves entertained.This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach , contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. Steven Johnson argue s that, throughout history, the cutting edge of innovation lies wherever people are working the hardest to keep themselves and other s amused....[Llegir més]