The Innovators by Walter Isaacson

The computer and the web are among the foremost imperative developments of our era, but few people know who created them. They were not invoked up in a garret or garage by solo inventors suitable to be singled out on magazine covers or put into a pantheon with Edison, Bell, and Morse. Instep, most of the developments of the advanced age were done collaboratively. There were a lot of intriguing people involved, some ingenious and a couple of indeed prodigies. This is the story of these pioneers, hackers, inventors, and entrepreneurs—who they were, how their minds worked, and what made them so imaginative. It’s too a story of how they collaborated and why their capacity to work as groups made them indeed more creative.”