The Innovators

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson is a sweeping history of the people and ideas that gave rise to the computer and the internet. Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, the nineteenth century mathematician who envisioned a general-purpose computing machine, and continues through Alan Turing, the inventors of the transistor and the microchip, and the pioneers of the internet and the World Wide Web. What distinguishes Isaacson’s account is his emphasis on collaboration: every major innovation in the digital age was the product of teams and communities, not lone geniuses. A richly researched and compellingly written history that illuminates how creativity, technology, and human cooperation combine to reshape the world.