Got To Now Reflection

In the book, “How We Got to Now,” by Steven Johnson where in the first chapter talked about the King Tut’s tomb. He also stated on how mirrors were making an impact in the social and along with that telescopes and microscopes slowly play an important role. In today’s world, most of the “physical properties of elements” indicated by Johnson had been well developed and high-tech that people tend to take advantage of it. For example, one of the properties that changed human world was silicon dioxide if people started looking around in today’s society many of the objects were created by silicon dioxide. Basically most of the technology objects such as: “window or skylights, camera lens, computer screen, microchip, and digital clock” were examples
One of the connections I had while reading was on Gutenberg; it was talking about Gutenberg’s invention. His creation on glasses was the first advanced technology that spread out through Europe. There were plenty monks did not noticed that they could not read the text, where they needed glasses near sighted work. It was amazing to see the first optical experiments revolution that made it into the vision history. As myself, I started to wear glasses when I was a sophomore in high school. In addition, I found that thanks to Gutenberg’s glasses invention; it helped many people like me to see near sighted. I mean without this amazing invention; I was basically pretty blind without my glasses. One of my favorite quotes is “The eyes is the window to the soul.” If I did not have glasses on, then I cannot see how beautiful life can be. Also, I mean that within any inventions; I think people should not always take advantage of it. Even though, I said that glasses were the greatest invention for me, but in return I had to wear it quite often. In my own opinion, there was always a gain and loss within any inventions. At first, when I was reading the text, I did not know that there was handful of history behind each of the concepts Johnson mentions in the first chapter about “Glass.” Now, I have a better understand perceptive and knowledge about how “Glass”, and it created many other