The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Isaacson, Walter

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The...
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Isaacson, Walter

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

$21.99

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

$21.99
Author: Walter Isaacson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a "riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving" (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.

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?

The Innovators is a masterly saga of collaborative genius destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution--and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. Isaacson begins the adventure 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 is "a sweeping and surprisingly tenderhearted history of the digital age" (The New York Times).

Author: Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 10/06/2015
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.90w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781476708706


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/22/2015 pg. 36

About the Author
Walter Isaacson is the bestselling author of biographies of Elon Musk, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein. He is a professor of history at Tulane and was CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2023. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.

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