Reddit reviews How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
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How We Got To Now by Steven Johnson, narrated by George Newbern.
First the good news - I really enjoyed this book. It looks at six different innovations and explains how they came to be and what unintended consequences they led to. I had previously listened to 'The Innovators' but felt it got bogged down in biographical details of the inventors themselves. This book is more about the ideas behind the inventions and how they led to often unpredictable developments in society, politics, and culture.
The bad news - I can't recommend it as an audiobook due to the narration by George Newbern. I've listened to a ton of audiobooks and never had a narrator ruin one for me like this. He has no flow in his sentences and fills them with Shatneresque pauses. He doesn't seem to understand the sentences themselves and puts paused in places that make no sense. I'm baffled how he has a job as an audiobook narrator and looking at his resume seems to record a great number of books.
So my recommendation is definitely read this book, but don't listen!