The Innovators : How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (CD-Audio)

from PhilipJHunt

I was born just a month after the first transistor was demonstrated. How the world has changed since then! And this very readable book tells the story of the digital revolution and the, often weird and quirky, characters who produced it. Or, in many cases, just missed it. And there is a woman on ...

from neddludd

After the success of his biography of Steve Jobs, Isaacson returns with a fascinating study of the process by which technology evolves--and, in the case of computer technology, many of the previously unknown individuals responsible. For example, the first text mention of a computer appeared in th...

from rivkat

History of people who made computers and the internet what they are today. Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper get good time dedicated to them. The main message Isaacson wants you to take away is that creativity and innovation are iterative; most advances, even if they have one very smart and imaginati...

from zzshupinga

ARC provided by NetGalley Isaacson has become the go to of the biography of the modern world, with biographies of Steve Jobs, Einstein, Kissinger, and now a "biography" of the digital revolution. Isaacson's comfortable reading style sets us out on the path of history, showcasing not the individua...

from Jeannine504

Five stars because I really, really liked it.This story of how we got from Babbage's Analytical Engine, which could slowly grind out numbers, to IBM's Watson, who could win a Jeopardy match, makes a pitch for collaboration within teams and symbiosis with the machine. For Isaacson, Watson could ne...