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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

Walter Isaacson

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Summary

Walter Isaacson traces the development of computers and the Internet through the people who made them. His history starts with Ada Lovelace and follows programmers, engineers, inventors and entrepreneurs, including Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Larry Page. The central subject is collaboration: how people combined technical skill, ideas and teamwork to turn inventions into working technology and new enterprises.

  • SourceThe Innovators — Simon & Schuster · About the Book names Gates and entrepreneurs; original Introduction: How This Book Came to Be explains collaborative invention and teams; Product Details confirms October 6, 2015 paperback, 560 pages, ISBN 9781476708706

Why read it Our view

Read the company and engineering history to examine how complementary people turned technical ideas into working products and enterprises. Isaacson's original introduction makes collaboration and teamwork central to the account.

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  • Bill GatesFeatured founder
    Gates is one of the technology pioneers covered in Isaacson's history of computers and the Internet. The book examines collaboration among engineers, inventors and entrepreneurs; this is a featured-subject connection, without implying Gates recommended it.
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