How long does it take to read The Innovators?
How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson, Francisco José Ramos Mena, Marcos Pérez Sánchez, Inga Pellisa Díaz
The Innovators by Walter Isaacson, Francisco José Ramos Mena, Marcos Pérez Sánchez, Inga Pellisa Díaz takes about 10 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 41 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2014. 583 pages, about 160,325 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It’s also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators shows how they happen.
Subjects: Biography, Computer scientists, History, Internet, Computer science, Bell Telephone Laboratories
