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Title: Summary and Analysis of "How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World"

Author: Summary Station

Narrator: Doris A. Ervin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-16

Publisher: Summary Station

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Learn about the modernization of our planet in a fraction of the time it takes to listen to the actual book!

In the introduction, author Steven Johnson shares some valuable knowledge about the journey ahead. While inventions are exciting, it is important to remember that the innovations in this book belong to everyday, normal life, not science fiction. Johnson details several groundbreaking yet simple inventions (air-conditioning, a glass of clean drinking water, etc.) that utterly changed our lives, and how these changes further inspired more ingenuity and occurrences that we may not even know are connected.

Take for example the printing press. Do you know that Gutenberg's press led to our ability to view microscopic cells? That may not be a connection we easily make, but when we break down the timeline of inventions, it becomes quite clear. Gutenberg invented the printing press, which created a "surge in demand for spectacles." Reading now enabled people to realize they had vision problems (farsightedness), so the growing need for spectacles urged people to experiment with lenses to help various eye types. This brought about the invention of the microscope, which of course, made us able to look at our cells and study them.

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Members Reviews:

'How we got to "Not Now"...'

Too simplistic. I thoroughly enjoyed the TV documentary which prompted me to order the Summary version. While I appreciate that it is a Summary on each great idea/invention, I thought that it would have much more detail & a bit more depth to it.

I test-ordered 6 with the expectation that I might order more. But unfortunately, that is not the case. Perhaps you would like to send me (1) Free copy of the actual book instead. I probably would find it more fascinating & wind up ordering a large quantity as a result for my clients to read & enjoy.

Looks like a child's primer

A 30-odd "page" booklet printed in ridiculously LARGE TYPE, huge MARGINS and SPACING (16 lines/page!). Looks like a child's primer. Sold for the outrageous price of $10. Future books in this collection should be described as VERY BRIEF COMMENTARY of the book in question.

Wasn't impressed

Sorry but I can't believe I paid almost $10 for this. Not well written. Readability for

about 6th grade level of comprehension. It did serve the purpose of providing

an idea as to what the book is about, but probably could have figured that out

by reading book reviews.