The Pinball Effect by Author James Burke

The Pinball Effect : How Renaissance Water Gardens

Made Carburetor Possible - and Other Journeys

James Burke

Back Bay Books Boston

August 1 ,2001 , Second Edition

The Pinball Effect : How Renaissance Water Gardens

Made Carburetor Possible - and Other Journeys

By James Burke

A Book Report

About the Author

James Burke is an author and a TV host known for his undeniably humorous process of presenting the different progressive advancements of the human society . His past writings talked about the different procedures by which human society and its ingenuity actually

managed to produce different inventions as well as discoveries in the different fields of human interest including science and technology as well as the different developments in engineering and other building procedures

In his book , the Pinball Effect , he strongly points out how a particular opinion as well as act of a certain person affects the society as a whole . It could not be denied that even from the minds of the most common people who are plainly curious about the systems that control the human society , different developmental breakthroughs arise This bouncing effect shall then be discussed within this report , as to how James Burke intended to show the difference of the human society before with regards the situation that it has to deal with now especially in connection with engineering based developments

Important Issues on the Book

The main thesis of Burke 's claims in his book The Pinball Effect particularly focuses on the process by which people from all over the world affect each other because of the inventions that they produce that actually brings the entire human community in certain advancements . He even points out that people are living within a web-like community that mainly portrays the impact of the different acts of others in a certain area towards the people living in another distant place . Within the first fourteen pages of the said book , Burke has been able to talk about the different procedures by which one opinion led to a discovery and a discovery lead into an invention that promised a better start for the human community at present

The universe , according to him , is something that explains the unknowingly direct way by which people are interconnected with each other . Most of the time , people lack the ample knowledge and understanding that they need to have to be able to see how much impact they are making in the society which in turn makes them less aware of the fact that they are indeed able to contribute to the advancement of the human society . Burke particularly mentions of the capability of a person , a certain individual , to make huge changes in the ways by which people are living their lives in the society today

Through the presentation of different historical breakthroughs on development and system advancements within the human community , Burke was able to outline the different ways by which the past inventors and discoverers were able to connect themselves together in pursuit of creating a more...