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How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,876
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,629
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,621
In this volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences. Filled with surprising stories of accidental genius and brilliant mistakes - from the French publisher who invented the phonograph before Edison but forgot to include playback, to the Hollywood movie star who helped invent the technology behind Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
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2 out of 5 stars
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cool title, unexceptional content
- De Andy en 10-10-14
- How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: George Newbern
The Adjacent Possible, Network System Innovation
Revisado: 04-04-15
If you could sum up How We Got to Now in three words, what would they be?
Network System Innovation
What other book might you compare How We Got to Now to and why?
Day the Universe Changed, James Burke -Innovation and invention in the context of the Adjacent Possible.
Have you listened to any of George Newbern’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No. I don't believe so. Excellent reading of the materiel.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Each chapter, of the 6 innovations, revealed profound insight into our human condition and frame of reference before the event of a given invention that has now become a given.
Any additional comments?
An unusually even handed take on the both the enlightened achievements of our modern era, with the modest realities of many of their unintended & subsequent unfortunate collateral effects.
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The Science of Liberty
- Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature
- De: Timothy Ferris
- Narrado por: Fred Stella
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 35
In his most important book to date, award-winning author Timothy Ferris — “the best popular science writer in the English language today” (Christian Science Monitor) — makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Liberty: The Final Solution
- De Nelson Alexander en 02-19-11
- The Science of Liberty
- Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature
- De: Timothy Ferris
- Narrado por: Fred Stella
Critical Thought Beyond Dogma And Ideology
Revisado: 11-17-13
If you could sum up The Science of Liberty in three words, what would they be?
Liberty From Ideology
What did you like best about this story?
Compelling argument for the liberty of human intellectual exploration, experimentation, and critical review without dogmatic expectation or ideological conditions.
What does Fred Stella bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
The authors inflection.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes.
Any additional comments?
This is a must read book in understanding, parsing, and finding a tranquil equilibrium from our current sociopolitical state of hyperbolic, polarized partisan extremism, no matter your relative relationship to science writ large.
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