The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

Article livré sans problème, à temps et en parfait état.

la qualità costruttiva del libro era decente. sono arrivato come nuovo

Konsept olarak hesap yapabilen makineden başlayıp yanlış hatırlamıyorsam 2010'lara kadar ana başlıklar halinde "bilgisayarı kim icat etti" sorusunu ele alan bir kitap. Türkçe'sini çok beğenerek okumuştum. İngilizce alıştırması olması için İngilizce'sini de aldım. Konuya ilgisi olan herkese bu kitabı ve aynı yazarın Steve Jobs biyografisini tavsiye ederim.

book feels new, however sadly and unfortunately, the cover is damaged

Walter Isaacson is a acclaimed biographer, and this book is about brief biographies of innovators, and their innovations, focusing on the digital world. We start with Ada, Countess of Lovelace, who arguably wrote the first program. Her work was based on Charles Babbage's difference and analytical engines, primitive computers. General-purpose, digital, electronic, binary computers came later, and were assisted by inventions like the transistor and microchip. Then innovations arising from computers: networks, the Internet, the web. Isaacson presciently ends the book with a short discussion about AI. Throughout the book, Isaacson asks what fosters innovation. And there are some general strands. People working collaboratively, in areas which encouraged it, ideally with diverse skillsets. Examples: Jobs and Wozniak (Apple), Bardeen and Brattain (transistor). The right motivation, whether that is military / government funding (ENIAC), private enterprise (Microsoft) or open source (GNU / Linux). And building off previous ideas and innovations. A really interesting book, if you want a history and exploration of the digital age, which is obviously still unfolding.