How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery, Kevin AshtonAs a technology pioneer at MIT and as the leader of three successful start ups, Kevin Ashton experienced firsthand the all consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour de force narrative twenty years in the making, Ashton leads us on a journey through humanitys greatest creations to uncover the surprising truth behind who creates and how they do it. From the crystallographers laboratory where the secrets of DNA were first revealed by

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