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24 alternatives to How We Got To Now

Six innovations that made the modern world

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. How We Got To Now launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   How We Listen Now▲63

   Essays and conversations about music and technology

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Prosper!▲55

   How to create a world worth inheriting

   2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Inventology▲72

   How we dream up things that change the world

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   The Inevitable▲66

   The 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Where Good Ideas Come From▲79

   The natural history of innovation

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Sapiens▲185

   A brief history of humankind

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Where Good Ideas Come From▲62

   The natural history of innovation

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   The Swerve: How the World Became Modern ▲55

   The story of the greatest book discovery of all time

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future▲62

   The ingenious ideas that drive today's computers.

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Public Parts▲83

    How sharing in the digital age improves the way we work

    2015 · audible.com · its alternatives →

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    Reinventing Organizations▲77

    A new kind of organization

    2015 · amazon.ca · its alternatives →

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    The Innovator's Solution▲69

    Creating and sustaining successful growth

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Open Innovation▲53

    The new imperative for creating & profiting from technology

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Makers: The New Industrial Revolution▲72

    The front lines of a new industrial revolution

    2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →

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    Frugal Innovation (AMA Today at 3PM)▲147

    How to do more with less

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Idea Machine▲56

    Now ideas can be produced industrially

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood▲67

    Where the big ideas of the modern era came from

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Real World of Technology ▲62

    The complex relationship between technology and society

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Brick by Brick▲65

    How LEGO rewrote the rules of innovation

    2016 · amazon.ca · its alternatives →

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    Now You See It▲59

    How technology will reshape the way we think and learn

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World▲61

    How wonder drives tech innovation

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Second Machine Age▲66

    Work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant techno

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Become An Idea Machine▲88

    Because ideas are the currency of the 21st Century

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation▲61

    How to harness the collective genius of the people

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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