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.


Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award for Nonfiction