- Published: 18 October 2018
- ISBN: 9780425287781
- Imprint: Viking
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 160
- RRP: $49.99
How We Got to Now
Six Innovations that Made the Modern World
- Published: 18 October 2018
- ISBN: 9780425287781
- Imprint: Viking
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 160
- RRP: $49.99
Praise for the adult edition of How We Got to Now:
"[Johnson's] point is simple, important and well-timed: During periods of rapid innovation, there is always tumult as citizens try to make sense of it . . . Johnson is an engaging writer, and he takes very complicated and disparate subjects and makes their evolution understandable." -- The Washington Post
"An unbelievable book . . . it's an innovative way to talk about history." --Jon Stewart
"What makes this book such a mind-expanding read is Johnson's ability to appreciate human advancement as a vast network of influence, rather than a simple chain of one invention leading to another, and result is nothing less than a celebration of the human mind." --The Daily Beast
"The reader of How We Got to Now cannot fail to be impressed by human ingenuity, including Johnson's, in determining these often labyrinthine but staggeringly powerful developments of one thing to the next." -- San Francisco Chronicle