A review by kimball_hansen
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson

4.0

I'm becoming a fan of [a:Walter Isaacson|7111|Walter Isaacson|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1192222433p2/7111.jpg] as I've read a few of his works and will read at least another one. He does a very thorough job and in this case almost too thorough. After reading this I feel like the equivalent of a Thanskgiving feast. Just stuffed. I don't know much about programming and computer lingo so I couldn't appreciate it to its fullest extent. I liked getting more of a complete picture of the Digital revolution instead of just bias snippets from Apple/Microsoft Lovers (Although I think Isaacson was bias to a point, but it was manageable). It's true that you can't just have one system and expect to be the greatest but a combination of systems and how they're composed such as Microsoft, Apple, and Linux. "It depends is almost always the correct answer." This book should be read with [b:Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us|6452796|Drive The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us|Daniel H. Pink|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348931599s/6452796.jpg|6643001]. Then you can learn a little more about why, for example, Wikipedia is so successful as well as many of these innovators.