The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Isaacson, Walter
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
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- ISBN 13
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Glued binding. Paper over boards. viii, [8], 542, [2] pages. Illustrated timeline. Illustrations. Illustrated endpaper. Notes. Index. Signed by author. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed on the title page. From Wikipedia: "Walter Isaacson (born May 20, 1952) is an American writer and biographer. He is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. He has been the chairman and CEO of Cable News Network (CNN) and the Managing Editor of Time. He has written biographies of Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Henry Kissinger. In October 2014, Isaacson published The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, which explores the history of the key technological innovations that are prominent in the digital revolution, most notably the parallel developments of the computer and the Internet. It became a New York Times bestseller. Writing for the New York Times, Janet Maslin described the author as "a kindred spirit to the visionaries and enthusiasts" who Isaacson wrote about." 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).
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- Title
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
- Author
- Isaacson, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
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- Edition
- First edition. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 147670869X
- ISBN 13
- 9781476708690
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- Ada, Lovelace, Paul Allen, ARPANET, Atanasoff, Bell labs, Vannevar Bush, Bill Gates, ENIAC, Steve Jobs, Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, William Shockley, von Neumann, Alan Turing, Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Steve Wozniak, Berners-Lee, Larry Page
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