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Sparks, (Paperback)
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- From the first spark of fire to the dawn of artificial intelligence - the entire story of human invention in one unforgettable book. Three million years ago, on an African riverbank, a creature picked up a stone and struck it into a blade. From that single spark runs an unbroken chain - through fire, farming, and the wheel; the printing press and the steam engine; electricity, flight, and the silicon chip - straight to the thinking machines reshaping our world today. Sparks is the sweeping, addictively readable history of how humanity built the modern world. And it was written for you - the curious reader - not for the experts. Inside, you'll discover: - Why fire didn't just warm our ancestors - it grew their brains and made them human- How a single goldsmith's printing press cracked open the medieval world and lit the fuse of revolution- The shipwreck, the iceman, and the lost civilizations that reveal how technology really advances - by accident, rivalry, and sheer human stubbornness- Why a tiny switch you've never even seen - the transistor - is the most important invention of the twentieth century- How clean water and a removed pump handle saved more lives than any machine ever built Meet the unforgettable people who bent the course of history: Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first computer program a full century before computers existed; Alan Turing, who imagined the universal machine, helped defeat the Nazis in secret - and was destroyed by the very nation he saved; John von Neumann, the mind so fast his fellow geniuses wondered, only half-joking, whether he was human; and Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Linus Torvalds - the rivals and visionaries who put a computer on every desk, in every pocket, and the web into everyone's hands. And - at last - the hardest ideas of our age, explained in plain language anyone can follow: what artificial intelligence actually is, and how machines, after seventy years of failure, suddenly learned to learn; and how quantum computing really works - superposition and entanglement made genuinely intuitive, with no equations and none of the usual hype. This is far more than a parade of gadgets. Sparks is clear-eyed about the genius and the cost of every invention - the engine that lifted billions out of poverty and warmed the planet; the smartphone that connects the world and steals our attention; the AI that may extend the human mind, or rival it. Every chapter ends with the same quiet, urgent question: now that we can build almost anything, can we summon the wisdom to build it well? Vivid, surprising, and impossible to put down, Sparks turns three million years of human ingenuity into a single thrilling narrative - and a mirror held up to our own astonishing, uncertain moment. If you were gripped by Sapiens, How We Got to Now, or A Short History of Nearly Everything, this is your next obsession.
| Publication date | August, 2026 |
| Author | E B Cohen |
| Book format | Paperback |
| Genre | Computing & Internet |
| Pages | 344 |
| Age group | Adult |
| Series title | No Series |
| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Publisher | E.B Cohen |
| Subgenre | History |
| Original languages | English |
| Translated from | English |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Is collectible | N |
| Bisac subject heading | Technology & Engineering |
| Edition | 1 |
| Language | English |
| Pub date | 2026-08-24 |
| Item Weight | 1.2 lbs (540 grams) |
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