The release date for the English version of 'The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution' by
Walter Isaacson is Oct 2014. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Walter Isaacson tells the fascinating tale of the individuals who invented the computer and the Internet in The Innovators, his follow-up to his popular biography of Steve Jobs. It will undoubtedly become the de facto history of the digital revolution and a vital resource for understanding how innovation really occurs.
What skills enabled notable entrepreneurs and innovators to transform their revolutionary concepts into game-changing realities? What spurred their innovations? Why did some people succeed while others did not?
Isaacson starts his brilliant tale with Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, who invented computer programming in the 1840s. He delves into the intriguing figures that shaped the modern digital revolution, including Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, and Bill Gates.
This is the account of how their creativity came to be and how their brains functioned. It also tells the story of how their capacity for cooperation and mastery of collaboration enhanced their creativity.
The Innovators demonstrates how innovation, creativity, and cooperation occur in a period that aims to promote them.