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Plato's Alarm Clock

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Plato's Alarm Clock

By James M. Russell

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About the book

We all like to think we are pretty smart. New medical advances seem to come along every day; space travel suddenly doesn't seem so difficult; self-driving cars are no longer a thing of the future . but if we were stranded on a desert island tomorrow, most of us wouldn't know how to catch a fish or start a fire, let alone rebuild all that extraordinary technology we now rely on.The truth is that we're not necessarily more clever than our ancestors, we just have an accumulation of centuries of tec...Show more

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ISBN

9781782439349

Publisher

Michael O'Mara Books Ltd

Published year

2018

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Plato's Alarm Clock

Format

Hardcover

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