The Innovators: Walter Isaacson’s New Bible of Digital Disruption

Oct 7, 2014

Sogeti Labs

Following his tremendously successful blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s brand new book The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution tells the 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 “Luddite” 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.

The Innovators 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, Isaacson in his new book shows how they happen.

Walter Isaacson is the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in Washington, DC. He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of TIME magazine.

Disruption is Nothing New

“Every time we’ve had a new technology, somehow or another it’s been co-opted and brought together so that it becomes a social network, a way of communicating, a way of getting people together,” Isaacson says.

Innovation Comes From Collaboration

Also please read The Key to Real Disruption:

“First they ignore you,
then laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.”

Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi

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