The Innovators
What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? The Innovators is an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. It is a masterly saga of collaborative genius destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, this book is a sweeping and surprisingly tenderhearted history of the digital age.
The Innovators 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.