Title: The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Author: Walter Isaacson
Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date: October 7 2014
Length: 17 hours and 28 Minutes
Audiobook Info: (from Amazon)
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. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens.
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?
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.
For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators shows how they happen.
My Thoughts:
1. I wanted to really like this book as a history lover but just couldn't get into it because it is not my type of history but I wanted to give it a shot.
2. I found the narration of the book to be very monotone/boring and it made me want to fall asleep.
3. I have heard worst narrations but when the narration makes you lose interest in a book that is a problem
4. Book was very factual seemed like author did his research. Which is really appreciated.
My overall thoughts:
If you think you would like this kind of history then I would say give the book a shot but overall I can not recommend it.
