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

Walter Isaacson, Dennis Boutsikaris

eAudio - 2014

2015 Audie Award Finalist for NonfictionFollowing his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a "riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving" (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.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? The Innovators is a masterly saga of collaborative genius destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution—and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. Isaacson begins the adventure with Ada Love...lace, 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...

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Published
Simon & Schuster Audio
Language
English
Main Authors
Walter Isaacson, Dennis Boutsikaris
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MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size504 GB
Parts19
ISBN9781442376236
Release Date10/7/2014
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size503 GB
ISBN9781442376236
Release Date10/7/2014