REVIEW: "Innovators," Walter Isaacson

Ambitious ideas, the most important achievements of the digital era and, of course, the people, without which the progress and development of technology would have been impossible - that's what to expect from the new book by Walter Isaacson, author of the acclaimed biography of Steve Jobs. "Innovators" are located on Corpus Publisher in September.

Walter Isaacson

Writer and journalist, previously led the company CNN and was chief editor of the magazine Time. Author of the famous biography of Steve Jobs, Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.

Walter Isaacson is able even to talk about difficult things easy and interesting. This time, he drew attention to the multifaceted topic - the invention of the computer and the Internet. They were not at one moment, this long and painstaking work of many people over the decades. Isaacson begins his story with the XIX century - with the most-the very beginning.

What this book

This is a story about people who were pioneers in this field. About how they worked, how they developed the idea. Isaacson's book characters - not the lonely genius, but real people, active, curious, with all its advantages and disadvantages.

This is a story about technology. The answer to the question because of what they exactly are, how they change, and why they are so strongly influenced our lives.

This is a story of cooperation. Without communication, cooperation, healthy competition is unlikely our world would be the way it is now. By itself, the computer - a device for the same. But in combination with the internet, this invention has allowed thousands of users to share information, create something new together. Computers with internet were able to make a revolution not only in life but also in the minds of people, both in their time contributed to a breakthrough new typographic Gutenberg press.

People who feel at ease at the intersection of the humanities and technology have made it possible to create a symbiosis of man and machine, which formed the basis of this story. As with many of the features of the digital age, the idea that innovation is born where there are art and science is not new.

Walter Isaacson

Ideas and characters

The first place to Isaacson - ideas that are not born in a vacuum: the emergence of the invention is not possible without the appearance of the other. So, if at Bell Labs did not come up with a small transistor, erected from strips of gold foil, splinter semiconductor material and clips for papers, computers would have stayed giants devouring energy and occupying an entire room, and therefore would not be available in the usual people. "Innovators" to help look at the development of technology as a single integrated process. Involuntarily admire global human ideas.

Each chapter is devoted to an important step on the way to the digital revolution: "Computer", "Programming" "Internet", "Transistor", "Video Games"... But two chapters - first and last - are devoted to Ada Lovelace, the first among the first. Her idea of ​​symbiosis of man and machine have become the impetus for a breakthrough and the beginning of the peace movement to innovate. Lovelace ideas serve as the connecting links for the entire book. Isaacson has not passed and by the heroes of our era: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Larry Page and many others. Thanks to Isaacson, the reader will learn about the people, have a strong influence on the development of technology.

Create these innovations afford only those who can combine beautiful and engineering, humanities and technology, poetry and machines, that is, the spiritual heirs of Ada Lovelace, the creator, who can get the most from the union of art and science, the insurgents that are open to the new and surprising and therefore find the beauty in everything.

Walter Isaacson

To read

In general, I would advise to read the "Innovators" all - every modern man somehow in contact with technology. Book Live, written accessible and interesting, so it will master even people far from IT. And if in particular, that those who are professionally associated with the IT-sphere. Without an understanding of the whole process can not talk about the future development.

"Innovators," Walter Isaacson

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