The Innovators (book)
The Book: The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (2014) was written by Walter Isaacson. The book details the history of the digital revolution through several pivotal innovators who created early computer breakthroughs and later larger systems like the Internet. The author also asserts that many innovators successes throughout history happens often with the help of other contributors via teamwork is a recurring theme.
Some of the innovators covered in the book:
- Ada Lovelace Pioneered early computer programming in the 1840s.
- Vannevar Bush
- Alan Turing
- John von Neumann
- J.C.R. Licklider
- Doug Engelbart
- Robert Noyce of Intel
- Bill Gates of Microsoft
- Steve Wozniak of Apple Computers
- Steve Jobs of Apple Computers
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Larry Page creator of Wikipedia