The Innovators
How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Walter Isaacson
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Recommended by 4 notable people, including Noah Kagan and Brian Cox
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Silicon Valley, Most Recommended Books, and Technology.
The computer and the internet are among the most important innovations of our era, but few people know who created them. They were not conjured up in a garret or garage by solo inventors suitable to be singled out on magazine covers or put into a pantheon with Edison, Bell, and Morse. Instead, most of the innovations of the digital age were done co...
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