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The Innovators
- How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
2015 Audie Award Finalist for Non-Fiction
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.
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- bumbledoor
- 19-05-17
Better than expected
I really enjoyed this book despite having low expectations.
I expected a breathless homage to genius but instead got a thoughtful reflection on collaboration and human computer interaction and an appeal to the merging of computing and arts.
Well worth a read.
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- Petra
- 14-05-16
Much more than a history of technology
WI really knows what he is doing! This is a really good book. The account builds steadily in interest and insight. He adds just the right amount of personality and opinion.
The performance is first class.
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- JDL
- 06-02-18
A brilliant story in every way
Where does The Innovators rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
The best.
Walter Isaacson's incredible story telling was brought to life through the best narrated audio book I've listened to.
This will be a book I listen to several times.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Absolutely! Such an engaging story!
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- Dreamer1638
- 14-02-15
love it, learned a lot
This book was very informative well read and full of information and facts about this modern world, it was very interesting to find that women were the first computer in software programmers. I highly recommend this book if you have any type of interest in technology.
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- m hickson
- 30-05-18
Good book and great value
Full of great stories, although quite hard going at times with lots of tech detail for any neutral. Lots of repetition but well worth a read for anyone interested in business, technology or human psychology
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- maeve marie staunton
- 02-10-15
One of my favourite books ever
Just loved it. But I love science and art and the Internet and mathematics and the culmination of all these, and humans and their effect on all of the above. So it was the perfect book for me. Very well researched, very we read, very well written and nice smart conclusions.
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- Leo Chelliah
- 18-08-16
Wonderful if u are a science geek
This book covers the innovation of computers starting from analog relays to the latest microchips...
Covers the story around the shift from hardware primary to software primary and few on the people who bring the software to life.
Even though I'm a computer student it's great to go through the history and see how the chips grown and computer comes to the world.
I like it very much.
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- PS
- 01-12-15
Interesting and engaging story
As a former IT geek who was always more interested in the history and development of computing that the current scene this book was right up my street. Covering from Ada Lovelace onwards this was a fascinating look at the development of computing.
whilst the technical information was there it was not too heavy so as to be impenetrable. That said I think some knowledge of the language of computers is going to make this far more enjoyable.
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- Juha Ristolainen
- 02-07-15
Really interesting
As a software professional this book gives interesting insights into the history of r industry.
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- Bextree
- 26-07-15
Thorough and wide ranging
I enjoyed the level of detail and Isaacson's holistic approach. A good historical perspective with little bias- but I would need to investigate further for that claim to be substantiated.
I will definitely be coming back to this work again.
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