The Innovators

Book Description

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens.

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?

In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins 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 shows how they happen.

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, October 2014: Many books have been written about Silicon Valley and the collection of geniuses, eccentrics, and mavericks who launched the “Digital Revolution”; Robert X. Cringely’s Accidental Empires and Michael A. Hiltzik’s Dealers of Lightning are just two excellent accounts of the unprecedented explosion of tech entrepreneurs and their game-changing success. But Walter Isaacson goes them one better: The Innovators, his follow-up to the massive (in both sales and size) Steve Jobs, is probably the widest-ranging and most comprehensive narrative of them all. Don’t let the scope or page-count deter you: while Isaacson builds the story from the 19th century–innovator by innovator, just as the players themselves stood atop the achievements of their predecessors–his discipline and era-based structure allows readers to dip in and out of digital history, from Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine, to Alan Turing and the codebreakers of Bletchley Park, to Tim Berners-Lee and the birth of the World Wide Web (with contextual nods to influential counterculture weirdos along the way). Isaacson’s presentation is both brisk and illuminating; while it doesn’t supersede previous histories, The Innovators might be the definitive overview, and it’s certainly one hell of a read. —Jon Foro

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Ada, Countess Of Lovelace
Chapter 2 The Computer
Chapter 3 Programming
Chapter 4 The Transistor
Chapter 5 The Microchip
Chapter 6 Video Games
Chapter 7 The Internet
Chapter 8 The Personal Computer
Chapter 9 Software
Chapter 10 Online
Chapter 11 The Web
Chapter 12 Ada Forever

中文：

书名：The Innovators

在他的史蒂夫·乔布斯传记轰动一时之后， 创新者 是沃尔特·艾萨克森关于创造计算机和互联网的人的揭秘故事。它注定将成为数字革命的标准历史，也是创新如何真正发生的不可或缺的指南。

是什么人才让某些发明家和企业家将他们的远见卓识转化为颠覆性的现实？是什么导致了他们的创造性飞跃？为什么有些人成功了，有些人失败了？

在他精湛的传奇故事中，艾萨克森从拜伦勋爵的女儿艾达·洛夫莱斯开始，她在19世纪40年代开创了计算机编程的先河。他探讨了创造我们当前数字革命的迷人人物，如范尼瓦尔·布什、艾伦·图灵、约翰·冯·诺伊曼、J.C.R.利克利德、道格·恩格尔巴特、罗伯特·诺伊斯、比尔·盖茨、史蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克、史蒂夫·乔布斯、蒂姆·伯纳斯-李和拉里·佩奇。

这是一个关于他们的思想是如何运作的故事，以及是什么让他们如此有创造力。它还讲述了他们的合作能力和掌握团队合作的艺术是如何让他们更具创造力的。

For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, 创新者 展示了它们是如何发生的。

2014年10月亚马逊月度最佳图书： 很多书都是关于硅谷的，以及那些发动了“数字革命”的天才、怪人和特立独行的人的集合–罗伯特·X·克林格利 偶然的帝国 and Michael A. Hiltzik’s 闪电商 这只是科技创业者史无前例的爆炸式增长及其改变游戏规则的成功的两个很好的描述。但沃尔特·艾萨克森做得更好： 创新者，他的后续大规模(无论是在销售和规模) Steve Jobs，可能是所有这些故事中范围最广、最全面的叙述。不要让范围或页数吓倒你：当艾萨克森从19世纪一个创新者一个创新者的故事中构建故事时，就像玩家本身站在前人成就的基础上一样，他的纪律和基于时代的结构允许读者深入和跳出数字历史，从查尔斯·巴贝奇的差异引擎，到艾伦·图灵和布莱奇利公园的密码破译者，再到蒂姆·伯纳斯-李和万维网的诞生(在此过程中，他与有影响力的反文化怪人联系在一起)。艾萨克森的演讲既轻快又富有启发性；但它并不能取代以前的历史， 创新者 这可能是权威的概述，但它肯定是一本地狱般的读物。&#8212；Jon Foro

目录表

第一章艾达，爱的伯爵夫人
第二章计算机
Chapter 3 Programming
Chapter 4 The Transistor
第五章微芯片
Chapter 6 Video Games
第七章互联网
第八章个人电脑
第九章软件
第十章在线
第11章网络
第12章Ada Forever