麻豆约拍

Pioneering innovations in sound technology lie behind contemporary modes of communication.

State secrets and ingenious errors lie behind the story of sound and the innovations that shape the way we communicate and share information, laughter and gossip with one another today. Steven Johnson explains how artefeacts like the phonograph, the telephone and of course, the radio were conjured into being by developing technologies that amplify and transmit sound.

As part of the Richer World season Steven Johnson, the bestselling science writer, reads from his latest book How We Got to Now where he examines inventive minds, brilliant mistakes and the surprising connections that gave us the everyday objects that have made the modern world.