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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: From fragrant flowers to hovering hummingbirds: Our world is more connected than you ever imagined.
Chapter 3: Long-zoom history views historical change through a wider lens, revealing concrete connections.
Chapter 4: Innovations can spark further innovations, often in wonderful, unexpected ways.
Chapter 5: An innovation might not directly cause change, but it can cultivate an environment for change to thrive widely.
Chapter 6: From lightbulbs to social legislation: Some innovations can truly bring light to dark times.
Chapter 7: Even inventions born of good intentions can sometimes be turned toward unsavory ends.
Chapter 8: Some inventions arise from an inventor’s richly diverse background and wide-ranging skills and unique experiences.
Description
How We Got to Now reveals many of the hidden connections between innovations we take for granted in our modern world. It shows how innovations can have unexpected applications, and that the consequences of an innovation are almost impossible to predict. Ultimately, it illustrates how interconnected we are, as a single invention can have enormous repercussions worldwide.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone curious about how technological innovation inspires social change
- Anyone interested in the history of invention
- Anyone wondering how one idea is transformed into many applications