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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Johnson, Steven, date.
How we got to now : six innovations that made the modern world / Steven Johnson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-698-15450-6
1. Technology—Social aspects. 2. Inventions—Social aspects. I. Title.
T14.5.J64 2014 2014018412
338'.064—dc23