Though this book’s title is called the Innovators, this contains plenty of dry materials ranging from the invention from each era, such as the transistor, the web, and the personal computer itself. There is an abundance of innovators that were mentioned in the text, the ones needed to be remembered is Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Alan Turing, as well as the ever so important Ada Lovelace, which her parts of the story begin and ends the book itself. This book bluntly promotes the idea that innovators are created by the collaboration or multiple of people with different abilities, combining the knowledge from the different genres of human knowledge in order to create their invention and be labeled as an innovator. This differs from the idea that …show more content…
Such as the case with Ada Lovelace, the sole creator of the idea of a computer, and who popularized the idea of poetical science. Her faith seems pre-determined by her parents since her mother was a mathematician and her father was a poet. Ada is the epitome of the idea of that collaboration led to innovation. Her letters to the Babbage and other intelligent men, discuss the idea of creating the first ever computer inspired by the weaving loom mechanism. Her ideas and collaboration with the different aspects of human knowledge ranging from math to the humanities which creates modern science. Alongside with her incessant need to be herself known as a professional scientist led Isaacson gives credit to the idea of modern innovation to Ada lovelace …show more content…
In each chapter of the book, Isaacson tells the story of arguments over who has the right to patent the idea for the computer for their companies, as well as transistors and microchip and every other idea. Companies start up, especially in silicon valley due to transistors, and then they are broken up due to bad leadership or made companion with other companies. All these companies are started up with people that wanted to make a name for themselves in the business area. Most of the people described in the book are not just academics, but business savvy innovators that know how to work the system in order to get their product out. That is the way of the American capitalistic nature. Computers history happened the way it was supposed to be is because of how the US works, and the culture that embarks on it. Innovation along with business is the key to success, this including the people that are working together. This idea was repeated in each chapter, and in the very first paragraph of the introduction as