Review: How To Invent Everything
How to Invent Everything is a book by Ryan North, of Dinosaur Comics fame. Its premise - time travel is real! You’ve just used your time machine, but now it’s broken and you’re stuck in the past. You want to:
How to Invent Everything is a book by Ryan North, of Dinosaur Comics fame. Its premise - time travel is real! You’ve just used your time machine, but now it’s broken and you’re stuck in the past. You want to: Not die. Recreate your modern life of luxury. How to Invent Everything doesn’t literally cover everything, but you can see it as a book about the highlights of civilization. It covers basic survival tips, building up to important technologies like the compass, then ending with fundamental science concepts and a basic intro to computing and logic gates. Its main thesis is that with the rig
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