How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery

ISBN: 0804170061

Author: Ashton, Kevin

Condition: New

Essential reading for would-be creators and innovators: If you want to tap your creative potential, buy this book. Its the last one youll ever need to read (Toronto Star).To create is human. Technology pioneer Kevin Ashton has experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative twenty years in the making, Ashton demystifies the sacred act, leading us on a journey through humanitys greatest creations to uncover the surprising truth behind who creates and how they do it. From the crystallographers laboratory where the secrets of DNA were first revealed by a long forgotten woman, to the Ohio bicycle shop where the Wright brothers set out to fly a horse, Ashton showcases the seemingly unremarkable individuals, gradual steps, multiple failures, and countless ordinary and usually uncredited acts that lead to our most astounding breakthroughs. Drawing on examples from Mozart to the Muppets, Archimedes to Apple, Kandinsky to a can of Coke, How to Fly a Horse is essential reading for would-be creators and innovators, and also a passionate and immensely rewarding exploration of how new comes to be.