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The innovators” is an admirable collection of short histories on each of the major building blocks of the digital age. As brilliant as many inventors of the internet and computer were, they achieved most of their advances through teamwork,” he says. O... Read More
Walter isaacson is one of my favorite authors and i throughly enjoyed reading this book. The cliff hanger ending is our real life.
Isaacson takes us on a gripping journey from the early innovations of ada lovelace and charles babbage to the revolutionary breakthroughs made by pioneers like alan turing, grace hopper, and bill gates. Isaacson is excellent at showing the contributio... Read More
Cons
The book tries to write several interesting stories as a sweeping history. It results in a sloppy mess with far too many names to remember. If the author somehow sees this i hope he'd take it as a motivation to get back to work on this topic.
Isaacson doesn't touch on the rise of online shopping on amazon or ebay, or the creation of paypal. This is another agent/promoter of the complex that is dismantling freedoms and societies, worldwide.
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Quality
Great writing and a terrific book for anyone interested in the history of the most important technological advance in the last 100 years
Well worth the read and because of the excess detail you can scan and still pick up the meat of it
The lone genius who conceives an idea and somehow manages to get a prototype up but not fully operational at best is marginaliz... Read More
Televisions got skinnier and the screens got bigger
Price
There are no marks that i have found and the price made it a good value
Packaging/appearance
Televisions were giant boxes of wood and glass that sat on the floor
Competitiveness
Shockley’s imperious style led to a defection of key employees the socalled “traitorous eight” that left to found rival fairchi... Read More
An example is the quote on page 112 – “in 2011 a milestone was reached apple and google spent more on lawsuits and payments inv... Read More
Also several different technological areas were need to achieve the digital revolution
I thought i knew way more about this subject than i did even though i knew the son of an eckert and mauchley collaborator
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- This product had a total of 5,645 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 27 2024.
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Must read some other walter isaacson books as his writing is easy to digest
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Where this book has issues is the overemphasis on the mundane
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It would be more interesting to have explored the absolute brilliance and luck that occured in some of the advances
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Much of the book mentions people and their historical upbringing that adds little to the story
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Also it would have been worthwhile including information on browser dominance and social platform development
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This collaboration hasn’t always gone smoothly
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The lone genius who conceives an idea and somehow manages to get a prototype up but not fully operational at best is marginalized in the history books with the credit going to those who succeeded in marketing the product
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A couple of historical markers from the late 60s early 70s the grateful dead and ken kesey shows the author as groovy something more than a geek than convincing as a solid connection
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