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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.
by Isaacson, Walter
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 1471138798
- ISBN 13
- 9781471138799
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About This Item
London: Simon & Schuster, 2014. 1st U.K. ed.. Hardback thick octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white text-photos, pages faintly toned as usual, minimal edgewear. 543 pp. Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, here is the definitive story of the people who created the computer and the internet. In his exciting saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He then explores the personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart (human-computer interaction, mouse), Robert Noyce (Intel), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Steve Wozniak (Apple), Steve Jobs (Apple), Tim Berners-Lee (web browser) and Larry Page (Google). The story of how their minds worked, and what made them so creative. A narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. What talents allowed certain inventors to turn their disruptive ideas into realities? Why did some succeed and others fail? .
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17783
- Title
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.
- Author
- Isaacson, Walter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st U.K. ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1471138798
- ISBN 13
- 9781471138799
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- technology, computers, computing, hardware, software, digital, internet, psychology, genius, teamwork, united states
- Bookseller catalogs
- TECHNOLOGY & COMPUTERS;
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Bookhome Sydney
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...