The Innovators

The Innovators

The Innovators

By Walter Isaacson

Book overview

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (2014) is a nonfiction book written by Walter Isaacson. The book details the history of the digital revolution through several pivotal innovators who created early computer breakthroughs and later larger systems like the Internet. The author also asserts that many innovators' successes throughout history happen often with the help of other contributors via teamwork. This book also delves into the topic of artificial intelligence, the founder being British computer science pioneer Alan Turing.

The Innovators is an overview from the beginning of computer science to the present, and seeks to understand the results of human-machine symbiosis.

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