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

Book by Walter Isaacson

Author of Steve Jobs

Following his successful biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's account of the men who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to become the standard history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really works.

The Innovators is a powerful tale of collaborative genius that is destined to become the standard history of the digital revolution—and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. Isaacson begins his journey with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating figures who shaped our current digital revolution, including 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. It’s a story about how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It’s also a narrative about 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 is “a sweeping and deeply moving history of the digital age” (The New York Times).