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The Innovators

by Walter Isaacson
The Innovators
The Innovators

Trailblazing minds igniting the digital revolution.

If you're fascinated by how the digital world we're so plugged into came to be, "The Innovators" is a rich tapestry you'd appreciate. Isaacson offers intimate portraits not just of known giants like Jobs or Turing but also unsung heroes who paved our tech landscape. It captures the collaborative spirit driving breakthroughs, making it a compelling narrative, one that could inspire your own creative or entrepreneurial journey.

  • National Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2014)
  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2014)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2015)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Innovators

by Walter Isaacson
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ISBN: 9781476708690
Authors: Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Date of Publication: 2014-10-07
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business, Biographies & Memoirs, History, Science
Related Topics: Technology, Entrepreneurship, Biography, Computers
Goodreads rating: 4.12
(rated by 37800 readers)

Description

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.
 

Trailblazing minds igniting the digital revolution.

If you're fascinated by how the digital world we're so plugged into came to be, "The Innovators" is a rich tapestry you'd appreciate. Isaacson offers intimate portraits not just of known giants like Jobs or Turing but also unsung heroes who paved our tech landscape. It captures the collaborative spirit driving breakthroughs, making it a compelling narrative, one that could inspire your own creative or entrepreneurial journey.

  • National Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2014)
  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2014)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2015)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.