You'll find the future wherever people are having the most fun. Wonderland inspires grins and well-what-dya-knows The New York Times Book Review From the New York Timesbestselling author of How We Got to Now and Extra Life, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. Johnson compellingly argues that observers of technological and social trends should be looking for clues in novel amusements. He introduces us to the colourful innovators of leisure: the explorers, proprietors, showmen, and artists who changed the trajectory of history with their luxurious wares, exotic meals, taverns, gambling tables, and magic shows. Get Started Audiobooks Podcasts Audible Originals. Discover the English Audiobook at Audible. Johnson's storytelling is just as delightful as the inventions he describes, full of surprising stops along the journey from simple concepts to complex modern systems. Wonderland as its meant to be heard, narrated by George Newbern. He finds that throughout history, the cutting edge of innovation lies wherever people are working the hardest to keep themselves and others amused. Johnson wrote a superb book called 'How we got to now' that had a limited number of key inventions that he says lead to the modern world.

In Wonderland, his brilliant work on the history of innovation, international bestseller Steven Johnson argues that the pursuit of novelty and wonder has always been a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. Wonderland inspires grins and well-what-dya-knows The New York Times Book Review From the New York Timesbestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. Wonderland : How Play Made the Modern World (2016) by Steven Johnson is an interesting read about the impact of how luxuries and amusements have had on history. What connects Paleolithic bone flutes to the invention of computer software? Or the Murex sea snail to the death of the great American city? How does the bag of crisps you hold in your hand help tell the story of humanity itself? 'Steven Johnson is the Darwin of technology' Walter Issacson, author of Steve Jobs 'The book is a house of wonders' The New York Times

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