The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction)

Isaacson, Walter

ISBN 10: 1410474976 / ISBN 13: 9781410474971

Published by Thorndike Press, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction)
• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1410474976
• ISBN 13: 9781410474971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A revelatory history of the people who created the computer and the Internet discusses the process through which innovation happens in the modern world, citing the pivotal contributions of such figures as Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Bill Gates, and Tim Berners-Lee.

Review

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, October 2014: Many books have been written about Silicon Valley and the collection of geniuses, eccentrics, and mavericks who launched the “Digital Revolution”; Robert X. Cringely's Accidental Empires and Michael A. Hiltzik's Dealers of Lightning are just two excellent accounts of the unprecedented explosion of tech entrepreneurs and their game-changing success. But Walter Isaacson goes them one better: The Innovators, his follow-up to the massive (in both sales and size) Steve Jobs, is probably the widest-ranging and most comprehensive narrative of them all. Don't let the scope or page-count deter you: while Isaacson builds the story from the 19th century--innovator by innovator, just as the players themselves stood atop the achievements of their predecessors--his discipline and era-based structure allows readers to dip in and out of digital history, from Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, to Alan Turing and the codebreakers of Bletchley Park, to Tim Berners-Lee and the birth of the World Wide Web (with contextual nods to influential counterculture weirdos along the way). Isaacson's presentation is both brisk and illuminating; while it doesn't supersede previous histories, The Innovators might be the definitive overview, and it's certainly one hell of a read. --Jon Foro