2015 Audie Award Finalist for Nonfiction
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).
