The First Decade of the Twentieth Century

About the Book

The author compares five primitive life forms from the Burgess Shale of over 500,000,000 years ago to five new technologies invented or developed in the first decade of the twentieth century in terms of their development and importance both in the past and for the future. He speculates on some possible alternative courses of history if different events had occurred during the first decade and what effect those alternative courses might have had on our lives today.

About the Author

Gordon B. Greer was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He practiced law for 43 years and between college and law school he served as an aviator in the United States Air Force. He now lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.