The Innovators: How A Group Of Hackers, Geniuses, And Geeks Created The Digital Revolution [abridged]

  • Author: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 8:45:17
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Synopsis

2015 Audie Award Finalist for Nonfiction

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the Internet.

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?

The Innovators is a masterly saga of collaborative genius destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution—and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. Isaacson begins the adventure with Ada Lovelace, Lord 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.

This 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, The Innovators is “a sweeping and surprisingly tenderhearted history of the digital age” (The New York Times).

Chapters

  • TheInnovatorsABR 01 Title

    Duration: 31s
  • TheInnovatorsABR 02 Introduction

    Duration: 12min
  • TheInnovatorsABR 03 Ch1

    Duration: 35min
  • TheInnovatorsABR 04 Ch2

    Duration: 57min
  • TheInnovatorsABR 05 Ch3

    Duration: 48min
  • TheInnovatorsABR 06 Ch4

    Duration: 49min
  • TheInnovatorsABR 07 Ch5

    Duration: 27min
  • TheInnovatorsABR 08 Ch6

    Duration: 16min
  • TheInnovatorsABR 09 Ch7

    Duration: 35min
  • TheInnovatorsABR 10 Ch8

    Duration: 46min
  • TheInnovatorsABR 11 Ch9

    Duration: 01h16min
  • TheInnovatorsABR 12 Ch10

    Duration: 23min
  • TheInnovatorsABR 13 Ch11

    Duration: 01h02min
  • TheInnovatorsABR 14 Ch12

    Duration: 31min
  • TheInnovatorsABR 15 Credits

    Duration: 01min