The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is a totally engaging book about how the computer age came about – the inventors, their ideas, what inspired them, how they built them, their challenges, failures, and eventual success that we now see today that we call the computer. From the huge servers in the cloud to the ubiquitous smartphone, all are products of the great women and men who toiled early on to bring these innovations to life.
We are familiar with the names like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates but these people were really “standing on the shoulders of giants”, building on the genius of people that are hardly mentioned these days. Names like John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, William Shockley, Howard Aiken, John Presper Eckert, John Mauchly, Steve Wozniak, Jean Jennings, Betty Snyder, Grace Hopper, and other pioneers. I silently thank these people for bringing the computer world to where we are now, and this book helps us understand in a much broader perspective the real movers behind the computer revolution.
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