Moving into the 20th century, the book details the race to build the first electronic computers. Isaacson contrasts the personalities and approaches of:
A recurring theme is that the greatest innovators were not just engineers. Ada Lovelace was a poet’s daughter; Steve Jobs was obsessed with calligraphy; Vannevar Bush was a visionary writer. Isaacson argues that the future of innovation lies not just in coding, but in the synthesis of technology with the liberal arts. Walter Isaacson The Innovators.pdf
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Walter Isaacson Published: 2014
The Apple II was not the first personal computer. But it was the first one that felt like a friend. Jobs’ genius was not the engineering; it was the curation . He stole the graphical user interface from Xerox PARC—that legendary Silicon Valley think tank where Alan Kay, Douglas Engelbart, and a team of visionaries had invented the mouse, windows, and hypertext. Jobs didn’t invent a single thing at PARC. He just saw what the academics had failed to sell. Isaacson argues that the future of innovation lies
The word "hacker" has a troubled reputation, but Isaacson reclaims its original, noble meaning. The hackers of MIT in the 1960s (the model for the characters in The Social Network ) lived by a code: "Information wants to be free" and "Hands-on imperatives." They believed you should build things for joy, not just profit.