The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Audio Book Review
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution – An Audio Book Review
- Author: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 17 hours and 28 minutes
- Unabridged
- Genre: Science and Technology
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Audio Book Summary:
Walter Isaacson achieved acclaim with his bestselling biography of Steve Jobs. He now follows it up with “The Innovators”, a compelling and revealing look at the individuals who helped create modern technology. These are the frontrunners that set the foundations of the digital revolution and show readers and listeners how innovation is developed. This audiobook also analyzes the vital factors of what makes a successful invention and how these innovators turned their ideas into groundbreaking reality. Isaacson details how these ideas came to fruition and why some succeeded where others failed.
In the audiobook, Isaacson starts off with Ada Lovelace who is Lord Byron’s daughter and how she pioneered the birth of computer programming during the 1840’s. It chronicles all the leaps that technology has made since then and the minds that propagated this industry that has now become a fundamental part of society. This is a story of how these inventors helped elevate computer technology and shows how much we can accomplish if we collaborated with others to achieve what is presently perceived as impossible.
One reason to listen:
The Innovators is a highly interesting audiobook at how our current technology came to be. If you want to know how we developed technology that, before was seen as science fiction, into reality then The Innovators will help feed your curiosity.
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Reactions:
“This book is the story of how that all came about. The visionaries and eccentrics who took the series of steps, starting with adding machines and progressing to the first personal computers, video games, the internet, search engines and social networking. The book presents the Goliaths such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Alan Turing, along with the many Davids with whom they collaborated so productively. It might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I found it a fascinating listen.” – Mark
“The Innovators is a serial biography of the large number of ingenious scientist, and engineers who led up to Jobs and Wozniak. Isaacson covers the transistor, the microchip, microprocessor, the programmable computer and software. He also covers videogames, the internet and web, search engines, touch screens taken together it is called the digital revolution. Isaacson weaves his enormous amount of research into deftly crafted anecdotes into gripping narrative about these imaginative scientists who transformed our lives. The book is a fun and informative read. Dennis Boutsikaris did a good job narrating the book.” – Jean
“Isaacson’s THE INNOVATORS is a series of inspiring stories about technologists and their innovations. The stories are woven together to give the book a cohesive flow and it reads like a novel. For technology fans, some of the stories won’t be new… but the way the stories are told and juxtaposed with other innovators’ achievements makes this book unique. These are geeks’ stories told lovingly by someone who clearly respects them and what they’ve done. I listened to the audible.com version of this book and found the narration well-done. I highly recommend this book to those interested in technology or innovation.” – Karen
“If you know little about the history of computing this is a great listen. It covers a lot of ground, and the narration is superb. My only gripe is that if is very superficial in many areas. Many innovations outside the USA get little or no credit (like those my the Japanese, Germans, Australians, Koreans, or Taiwanese), and if you are already familiar with computing history then you may already know much of the content, in which case it may bore and frustrate you.” – Shane Murray
“Having taken computer programming classes in college in the mid1970s, before the time of personal computers, I was programming on punch cards when computers were the size of a wall. I was very interested to read this book. Unfortunately, I was disappointed in this book. Aside from a few interesting tidbits, I found the account of this topic to be rather boring. Perhaps my expectations were just too high.” – Robin
Score on Audible: 4.4 out of 5
Score on Amazon: 4.0 out of 5
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