Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens.
What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail?
In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page.
This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It’s also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative.
For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators shows how they happen.
and I also like the photographs throughout I’ve started this book a deeper read of this book, and scanned it all. After the Steve Job’s biography, I’m a big fan of Walter Isaacson’s ability to capture the pathos of the world of people involved in creating our digital world. Clearly written, and I also like the photographs throughout…they really add to the book too. The timeline of the book is well thought out as well; if you consider that although the history of the “Digital Revolution” is relatively short, there have been a…
Fascinating History ‘The Innovators’ is a serial biography of a number of highly creative scientists and engineers since the 1840s who gave us the Third Industrial Revolution – transistors, microchips and microprocessors, programmable computers and their software, PCs, and the graphic interface. In turn, those innovations set the stage for video games, the Internet, search engines, Wikipedia, and touchscreens. One important conclusion – the most important digital advances have been made by teams and collaboration,…