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24 alternatives to Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World

How wonder drives tech innovation

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Reality is Broken▲65
Why Games Make Us Better & How They Can Change the World
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
2
Inventology▲72
How we dream up things that change the world
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
Reality is Broken▲60
Why games make us better and how they can change the world
2015 · amazon.ca · its alternatives →
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Wonderbook▲78
The Illustrated guide to creating imaginative fiction
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
5
Technotopia▲96
A book about how the future is going to be pretty awesome.
2015 · publishizer.com · its alternatives →
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Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind ▲65
A glimpse inside the minds of highly creative people
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
Theory of Fun for Game Design▲67
Thoughts on the most important element of any game's design
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Little Inventors▲92
Turn children's ideas into reality
2016 · littleinventors.org · its alternatives →
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Where Good Ideas Come From▲79
The natural history of innovation
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
10
Little Bets▲89
How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
11
The Innovator's Solution▲69
Creating and sustaining successful growth
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Making Ideas Happen▲75
Overcoming the obstacles between vision and reality
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
13
Games People Play▲65
The basic handbook of transactional analysis
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
Meaningful: The Story of Ideas that Fly▲61
Building ideas that make successful products
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
15
From Barbie to Mortal Kombat▲67
Explores the complicated issue of gender in computer games
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
16
The Imagineering Way▲53
Learn from Disney Imagineers on how to be creative
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 →
18
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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Wonder▲67
Your ultimate entertainment and lifestyle discovery guide
2015 · thewonderapp.co · its alternatives →
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Booktrope▲81
Reinventing the way books are published
2015 · booktrope.com · its alternatives →
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Hullabalu▲89
Interactive stories for kids
2014 · alltexseed.com · its alternatives →
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The 46 Rules of Genius▲65
An innovator's guide to creativity
2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →
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Technopoly▲61
The surrender of culture to technology
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Tools for Thought▲69
The history and future of mind-expanding technology
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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