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

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.