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

After the world bestseller biography of Steve Jobs, Isaacson wrote about the people thanks to whom computers and the internet came into being. This is a story of the different stages of the digital revolution—and how to make sure dreams become reality. Each chapter is devoted to an important step on the way to the digital revolution: “Computer,” “Programming,” “Internet,” “Transistor,” “Video Games”… But two chapters—first and last—are dedicated to Ada Lovelace, the first among the first. Her ideas about the symbiosis of man and machine became the impetus for a breakthrough and the beginning of the world’s movement toward innovations. Lovelace’s ideas serve as connecting links throughout the entire book.

This book is about those without whom there would be no computers or the internet—Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Larry Page.