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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
15 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 17½ hrs. S. & S. Audio. 2014. ISBN 9781442376229. $49.99; Playaway digital; digital download. SCI
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Taking a chronological, people-oriented approach, rather than a scientific or technical one, to the history of computers, the Internet, and digital technology, Isaacson (Steve Jobs) illuminates the ways teamwork, collaboration, and creativity have led to the current tech-driven world. As much biography as computer history, the work discusses such people, companies, and developments as 1840s computer programming pioneer Ada Lovelace, Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, Doug Engelbart, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, IBM, ENIAC, Microsoft, and Apple. Dennis Boutsikaris's moderately paced, low-key reading makes the book an easy, thoroughly engrossing listen. This fascinating and unique work would be a nice companion to Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee's The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies.
VERDICT This program will appeal to general listeners interested in the history of the computer age and entrepreneurs looking for nontraditional new industries, business models, and marketing concepts. ["Anyone who uses a computer in any of its contemporary shapes or who has an interest in modern history will enjoy this book," read the review of the S. & S. hc, LJ 9/15/14.]
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