I would like to take this opportunity to tell everyone about the fantastic book How to Invent Everything by Ryan North. It’s framed as a survival guide for stranded time travelers and goes into detail about many foundational technologies, how they build on each other, and how to make them yourself from scratch. It’s truly a fascinating read.
that reminds me of the show Connections, not so much the time machine but how technology was built on eachother in such strange ways, it always starts off with some randome thing then you get sucked in and end up who knows where by the end of the episode, its so good
I would like to take this opportunity to tell everyone about the fantastic book How to Invent Everything by Ryan North. It’s framed as a survival guide for stranded time travelers and goes into detail about many foundational technologies, how they build on each other, and how to make them yourself from scratch. It’s truly a fascinating read.
that reminds me of the show Connections, not so much the time machine but how technology was built on eachother in such strange ways, it always starts off with some randome thing then you get sucked in and end up who knows where by the end of the episode, its so good
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series)
I love that show - it and The Twilight Zone are probably my all time favorites. The production is amazing and it’s just so fun and interesting.
This is a great book. I read it a few years ago and I still think about it. The breakdown of how everything is built on each other was interesting.
Bought it. Thanks for the rec!!