It took me a couple of weeks to get into this book –
somehow I read the introduction and wasn't hooked. Then I had to decide whether to renew it or
just take it back and so I dove into the first chapter and was then hooked.
So my advice is to skip the introduction. The author is a journalist as well as an
economist and his talent is being able to deal with topics in an entertaining
and quick way.
The book is divided into 7 sections with 50 inventions
being split between them. Each chapter is short and interesting. The inventions range over all sorts of things
– like the Gramophone, Google, Passports, Video Games, Batteries etc etc.
I was intrigued by how much effect some seemingly
straightforward innovation had on our everyday lives – and not always in the
way you would expect.
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