From Goodreads:
What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past . . . and then broke? How would you survive? Could you improve on humanity's original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat?
Don't worry: in How to Invent Everything, bestselling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North has figured out the answers to those four questions - and more - just for you. This guide contains all the science, engineering, mathematics, art, music, philosophy, facts, and figures required for even the most clueless time traveler to build a civilization from the ground up. Your new world will be one in which humanity matured quickly and efficiently, instead of doing what we did (i.e., spending 200,000 years stumbling around without language, thinking disease was caused by weird smells, and living completely oblivious to the fact that tying a rock to a string would unlock navigating the entire world).
Review:
| This book is hilarious and useful! North has accomplished an amazing feat of compiling "how-tos" on basically everything for making a civilization, all in the guise of helping out a stranded time-traveler. It's great, a bit of a read, but it's worth it for the snippets of humor and the constant dragging of humanity for how long we took to invent things. |
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