Walter Isaacson: The Innovators - How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Well, I could hardly put it down. The amount of research is staggering and the book is so thorough as it traces the technological (hardware and software) developments, one on top of another, which eventually led to what we have now - a wired world.
One man stands out as the greatest - Bill Gates. While not necessarily a Microsoft addict, you just can't help but be awed by the man. By comparison, Steve Jobs comes across as a prick of the first order.
One of the things that amazed me right through the book was that nearly all of the people profiled were child prodigies, tinkering in garages at a young age and building radios or taking things apart or learning how to code in languages like assembler (as someone who has tried, it is not easy!)>
But no Mark Zuckerburg - what's going on here? A book published in 2014 that does not mention the facebook revolution? I also felt it could have gone a lot further with google but they are small points. Highly recommended!
I was browsing in Dymocks Bookshop in the Melbourne CBD in early July 2014 when I came across this book and I read the first few pages of the chapter on Bill Gates. It was fantastic stuff and made me add this book to my MUST READ list. So I put it on my Christmas list and got my own copy in December 2015.
Here's the blurb:
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.
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.
Well, I could hardly put it down. The amount of research is staggering and the book is so thorough as it traces the technological (hardware and software) developments, one on top of another, which eventually led to what we have now - a wired world.
One man stands out as the greatest - Bill Gates. While not necessarily a Microsoft addict, you just can't help but be awed by the man. By comparison, Steve Jobs comes across as a prick of the first order.
One of the things that amazed me right through the book was that nearly all of the people profiled were child prodigies, tinkering in garages at a young age and building radios or taking things apart or learning how to code in languages like assembler (as someone who has tried, it is not easy!)>
But no Mark Zuckerburg - what's going on here? A book published in 2014 that does not mention the facebook revolution? I also felt it could have gone a lot further with google but they are small points. Highly recommended!
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