The Innovators

In an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators is the work that best shows how they come about.

Following his extraordinary biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s new book tells the fascinating story of the people who invented the computer and the internet; The Innovators is set to become the definitive history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to understanding how innovation really happens.

What talents and skills allowed some inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? Where did these creative leaps come from? Why did some succeed and others fail?

In this masterful saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, a pioneer of computer programming in the 1840s. He also introduces the extraordinary people who created the digital revolution around us, people like 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 work and why they have been so inventive, but also of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative.