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A review by erlhopkins
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
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this book is so freaking cool.
i, a lover of strange and unusual facts that i somehow (read: intentionally) stumble upon, gleaned so many new things while reading this !!
catch me at the next party talking about how thomas edison wasn’t the first to invent the lightbulb, how doctors loved to go deliver babies after having their hands in dead bodies, the phonograph was used opposite how it was intended, and a really uncomfortable fact about sperm whales.
gah. there’s so many fascinating things.
this book is so freaking cool.
i, a lover of strange and unusual facts that i somehow (read: intentionally) stumble upon, gleaned so many new things while reading this !!
catch me at the next party talking about how thomas edison wasn’t the first to invent the lightbulb, how doctors loved to go deliver babies after having their hands in dead bodies, the phonograph was used opposite how it was intended, and a really uncomfortable fact about sperm whales.
gah. there’s so many fascinating things.