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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…

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Editions

16 editions · 4 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2015
    imusti · 9781471138805
  • Audiobook · English · 2014
    Simon & Schuster Audio · 9781442376243
  • Hardcover · English · 2014
    Innovators
    Simon & Schuster · 9781471138799
  • Audiobook · English · 2014
    Simon & Schuster Audio · 528 pages · 9781442376229
  • Other · English · 2015
    Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning · 955 pages · 9781594138850
  • Other · English · 2015
    Innovators
    Simon & Schuster, Incorporated · 560 pages · 9781476708706
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