I had fun making infographics for passages that inspired me to visually interpret in Richard Florida�s �The Rise of The Creative Class: And How It�s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life�, Derek Sivers� �Anything You Want� and Al Pittampalli�s �Read This Before Our Next Meeting.� Motivated to do the same with �Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies� by scientist Jared Diamond. Another good read. Took me awhile to finish it�I�m a slow reader, also considering that it�s packed with historical information and analysis�Diamond has a logical narrative running through all of it. Here are visualizations of some his points:
Infographic 1: World-changing trifecta
The book�s title is game to visually portray, like in the form of a rebus. It�s Diamond�s framework that scaffolds his findings and arguments about the three major contributors, for better and worse, to the life of people and our planet. Sketch:
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Infographic 2: Developments over time, largo pace
What was established, way back when, activated the evolution toward the methods and tools used today. The latest means to make things, to make a civilization, share a long history and continue to make history�as both a complex benefit and a mixed bag of unintended consequences. Sketch:
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Infographic 3: Geography�s blatant role
One can easily call Diamond a �geographic determinist.� The physical environment, coupled with human desires, can play a definite part in the day-to-day environment�manipulated era to era. It�s a generative outcome that can�t be ignored. Sketch:
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Highlighted in the book�s Preface, a reviewer wrote that Diamond viewed world history as an onion, where modern society is on the topmost layer and past versions on subsequent layers. Diamond admitted, �Yes, world history is indeed such an onion! But that peeling back of the onion�s layers is fascinating, challenging�and of overwhelming importance to us today, as we seek to grasp our past�s lessons for our future.� This claim can seed another visualization.
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