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

Isaacson: Cooperative Team Work is the Basis of the Digital Revolution

Customer Review 5.0 out of 5 stars The Digital Revolution-The Interface of Arts and Sciences., Feb. 21 2015 By Stewart Paulson This review is from: The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover) Isaacson introduces a significant number of personalities who contributed to the recent digital revolution - Often people who had been minimized or unrecognized historically for their contributions. According to Isaacson, the digital industry was a product of teamwork, brainstorming between dynamic individuals, who worked closely together, focusing on new and better products and services for the consumer. According to Isaacson the digital age evolved at the interface of the arts and sciences. Isaacson gives credit to many of the historically unrecognized women for their significant contribution in programming. He starts by recognizing Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who back in 1840 stated that machines could be programmed to perform numerous variable activities - and hence Ada was the first to recognize the potential for extending the mind through machines by programming, only to be limited by human needs and imagination. Isaacson recognizes the contribution of women in the movement of the computer program instructions into the computer as well as the role of women in development of many new programming languages as software. Isaacson's book attributes the rapid development of the digital technology to the participation by multiple facets of society such as government, the private sector and volunteers from all walks of life. Isaacson attributes rapid progress of digital innovation to the close and frequent interaction between hackers, geniuses and nerds. Mr. Isaacson talks about the role of open sourcing and blogging and their significance the present digital progress. He describes the ARPNET and Internet and their early problems, early solutions and rapid expansion and the role of government in facilitating i...