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

Isaacson traces the history of computing from Ada Lovelace to the internet era, showing that innovation is usually collaborative and built on layered breakthroughs.

What stuck

• Breakthroughs are usually collective, layered, and less solitary than the myth suggests.
• Progress compounds when one generation leaves tools that the next can build on.