
A Brief History of Motion
From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
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Narrated by:
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Liam Gerrard
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By:
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Tom Standage
Tom Standage's fleet-footed and surprising global histories have delighted fans and sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Now, he returns with a provocative account of an overlooked form of technology - personal transportation - and explores how it has shaped societies and cultures over millennia.
Beginning around 3,500 BCE with the wheel - a device that didn't catch on until a couple thousand years after its invention - Standage zips through the eras of horsepower, trains, and bicycles, revealing how each successive mode of transit embedded itself in the world we live in, from the geography of our cities to our experience of time to our notions of gender. Standage explores the social resistance to cars and the upheaval that their widespread adoption required. Cars changed how the world was administered, laid out, and policed, how it looked, sounded, and smelled - and not always in the ways we might have preferred.
Today - after the explosive growth of ride-sharing and years of breathless predictions about autonomous vehicles - the social transformations spurred by coronavirus and overshadowed by climate change create a unique opportunity to critically reexamine our relationship to the car. With A Brief History of Motion, Standage overturns myths and invites us to look at our past with fresh eyes so we can create the future we want to see.
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Motion!!
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Mostly about cars and travel by land
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An expansive historical perspective
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Great listen
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This is great if you want hear a lot about cars but there were other forms of transport to explore like trains, shops, segways, etc.
I enjoyed the book nevertheless but it was not what I expected.
Its mostly about cars
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Great content
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