How We Got To Now By Steven Johnson: Analysis

Can the refrigerator be considered as an artificial cold that a person cannot live without? Many different authors have their own styles of writing and their own know how’s as to when to use the “s” to possess. Steven Johnson, a British-American, had published a book called, “How We Got to Now.” In the book, he presented a six-part series where it had amazing explored legacies that passed on great ideas. In each of the chapters’ titles, the six sessions are: Glass, Cold, Sound, Clean, Time, and Light. Johnson had included many of the famous historical characters such as “Thomas Edison, Galileo Galilei, Mark Zuckerberg, and more.” Throughout most of the book, he had quite often brought up different type of inventions into his writing. In each …show more content…
Then, he mentions on how the “Refrigerator became a huge industry, not measure just by the cash that changed hands, but also in the sheer size of the machines: steam-powered monster machines weighing hundreds of tons, maintained by a full-time of engineers (Johnson, 2014).” On the other hand, Blackman who wrote the article, “Focus on the Fridge” also claim that “After World War I, Kelvinator was “a home appliance manufacturer that is now a brand name owned by Electrolux” has introduced the first refrigerator with automatic control (Blackman, M. B, 2005). Then, “by 1922, a refrigerator with wooden cabinet, water-cooled compressor, ice cube trays and storage space was sold (Blackman, M. B, 2005).” The two authors basically have similar concepts on explanations modern invention such as the household refrigerator toward their audiences. Johnson did not aim a specific audience; he has basically slowed sharing his perspective on the refrigerator to any age group of the audiences. Refrigerator made “Ice seems at first glance like a trivial advance: a luxury item, not a necessity” (Johnson, 2014). He is more focus on letting the audiences know that the reader should not take advantage of all the technology inventions. “Yet, over the past two centuries its impact has been staggering, when you landscape of the Great Plains; to the new lives and lifestyle brought into being via frozen embryos, all the way to vast cities blooming in the desert” (Johnson, 2014). Instead, the audiences should appreciate the refrigerator invention in a positive perspective. The main key is he wanted to let the audience know more about the refrigerator invention and have a better historical understanding of how invention come