2015 Audie Award Finalist for non-fiction

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Careers, Walter Isaacson’s NY Occasions bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is normally a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply shifting” (The Atlantic) story from the people who developed the computer and the web.

What were the skills that allowed particular inventors and entrepreneurs to carefully turn their visionary tips into disruptive realities? What resulted in their creative leaps? Why did some be successful and about The Innovators: How a Band of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Made the Digital Revolution others fail?

The Innovators is a masterly saga of collaborative genius destined to become the typical history of the digital revolution-and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. Isaacson begins the adventure with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s girl, who pioneered education in the 1840s. He explores the interesting personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as for example Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Expenses Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page.

This is actually 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 grasp the artwork of teamwork produced them even more creative. For a time that seeks to foster development, creativeness, and teamwork, The Innovators can be “a sweeping and amazingly tenderhearted background of the digital age group” (THE BRAND NEW York Occasions).