Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovatorsis
Walter Isaacson's story of the people who created the computer and
the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the
digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really works. What
talents allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their
disruptive ideas into realities? What led to their creative leaps?
Why did some succeed and others fail? In his exciting saga,
Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who
pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He then 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 creative.
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, this book
shows how they actually happen.
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Thu, 22 Sep 2022 | Review
by: Niel H.
highly detailed and absolutely fascinating, but so thorough that it is not for the faint hearted ! he is a wonderful writer and obviously very bright well read, and must do a huge amount of research to achieve such detail.
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