The Resource Wonderland : how play made the modern world, Steven Johnson
Wonderland : how play made the modern world, Steven Johnson
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The item Wonderland : how play made the modern world, Steven Johnson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Wonderland : how play made the modern world, Steven Johnson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "Explores the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. Play has always been more important than most people realize. In this vivid examination of the power of play and delight, Steven Johnson offers a surprising history of popular entertainment. Roving from medieval kitchens and ancient taverns to casinos and shopping malls, he locates the cutting edge of innovation wherever people are working hardest to keep themselves and others amused. Johnson's storytelling is just as entertaining as the inventions he describes, full of surprising stops along the journey from simple concepts to complex modern systems. He introduces us to the colorful innovators of leisure: the explorers, proprietors, showmen, and artists who changed the trajectory of history with their luxurious wares, musical instruments, exotic meals, gathering places, video games, and magic shows. These wonderlands of amusement did more than just entertain their patrons, Johnson argues. They also directly contributed to economic and social revolutions that transformed the modern world. Johnson makes the compelling case that anyone who wants to know where technology and social trends are headed next should be paying close attention to the way we play. If you're looking for the future, you'll find it wherever people are having the most fun."--Dust jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 322 pages
- Contents
-
- Fashion and shopping
- Music
- Taste
- Illusion
- Games
- Public space
- Isbn
- 9780399184482
- Label
- Wonderland : how play made the modern world
- Title
- Wonderland
- Title remainder
- how play made the modern world
- Statement of responsibility
- Steven Johnson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Explores the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. Play has always been more important than most people realize. In this vivid examination of the power of play and delight, Steven Johnson offers a surprising history of popular entertainment. Roving from medieval kitchens and ancient taverns to casinos and shopping malls, he locates the cutting edge of innovation wherever people are working hardest to keep themselves and others amused. Johnson's storytelling is just as entertaining as the inventions he describes, full of surprising stops along the journey from simple concepts to complex modern systems. He introduces us to the colorful innovators of leisure: the explorers, proprietors, showmen, and artists who changed the trajectory of history with their luxurious wares, musical instruments, exotic meals, gathering places, video games, and magic shows. These wonderlands of amusement did more than just entertain their patrons, Johnson argues. They also directly contributed to economic and social revolutions that transformed the modern world. Johnson makes the compelling case that anyone who wants to know where technology and social trends are headed next should be paying close attention to the way we play. If you're looking for the future, you'll find it wherever people are having the most fun."--Dust jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1968-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Johnson, Steven
- Dewey number
- 790.1
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GV1200
- LC item number
- .J64 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Amusements
- Label
- Wonderland : how play made the modern world, Steven Johnson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-306) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Fashion and shopping -- Music -- Taste -- Illusion -- Games -- Public space
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399184482
- Lccn
- 2016035344
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn956633933
- Label
- Wonderland : how play made the modern world, Steven Johnson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-306) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Fashion and shopping -- Music -- Taste -- Illusion -- Games -- Public space
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399184482
- Lccn
- 2016035344
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn956633933
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