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

The Innovators
Author Walter Isaacson
Original title The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Country United States
Language English
Genre Biography
Publisher Simon & Schuster (U.S.)
Publication date
 October 7, 2014
Media type E-book, Print (Hardback and Paperback), and Audiobook
Pages 488 pp.
ISBN 1-4767-0869-X
OCLC 876012030

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (2014) is a nonfiction book 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 happen often with the help of other contributors via teamwork. This book also delves into the topic of artificial intelligence, the founder being British computer science pioneer Alan Turing.[1][2]

The Innovators is an overview from the beginning of computer science to the present, and seeks to understand the results of human-machine symbiosis.[3] Innovators covered in the book include Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, Grace Hopper, John Mauchly, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce of Intel, Bill Gates and Paul Allen of Microsoft, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs of Apple, Tim Berners-Lee, Larry Page of Google, Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, and Lee Felsenstein of Osborne.

Corrections

In December 2015, Simon & Schuster published a revised electronic edition of The Innovators, which corrected significant errors and omissions in the original edition’s Chapter 9, which covers Software. Isaacson – who in researching the book interviewed Bill Gates but not Paul Allen – had erroneously assigned virtually all credit for the company’s early innovations and success to Gates, when in fact they were the product of highly collaborative efforts by several people, including Allen. In the revised edition, among other edits, Isaacson includes archival material from 1981 in which Gates credits Allen for being the “idea man” in charge of R&D at Microsoft, while he, Gates, was “the front man running the business.”[4]

References

  1. ↑ PBS Charlie Rose Interview with Walter Isaacson Oct 13, 2014
  2. ↑ "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution". books.simonandschuster.com. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 2014-10-24.
  3. ↑ Details and chapters about the book "The Innovators"
  4. ↑ Isaacson, Walter (December 2015). The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 1471138798.
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