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Chargement... The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (édition 2014)par Walter Isaacson (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreLes innovateurs. Comment un groupe de génies, hackers et geeks a fait la révolution numérique par Walter Isaacson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Better than Dyson's Turing's Cathedral and just as good as Gleick's The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood as a history of computing. It benefits from Isaacson's penchant for writing interesting biography and his familiarity with Jobs and Gates. As a kid in the 1980s whose dad brought home a Tandy TRS-80 from Radio Shack around age seven, who played Turtle and Oregon Trail on the Apple IIe at school, who wrote programs in BASIC, and whp had multiple yahoo and hotmail accounts to get around pesky storage limits, who played Trinity on his great-grandma's Commodore 64, and who played Atari and Colecovision, etc., this book hit home for me on a certain level and era. My only wish is that it had a chapter on Radio Shack et al., the entry point for many an amateur in the 1980s. It could also have had more pictures. But, it is an interesting, intriguing, thorough, and important history of computers and the world they made up to 2014. It could be expanded today to include the pervasiveness of the iPhone, social media, wifi, and A.I. text generators. That is another 100 pages that could be now added. ( ) As a lover of history and with a background in the semiconductor industry, I found the first half of this book extremely interesting and engaging. The book follows the chronological progression of invention from the earliest calculating machines through to IBM mainframes, PCs and finally onto the Internet and World Wide Web of today. The insights an observations of the early pioneers such as Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage were truly inspired and prescient. Isaacson’s primary thesis is that true progress is achieved through collaboration, not the sole genius inventor in the basement. He proves his theory by describing some of the greatest technological collaborations in history, Bardeen and Brattain (transistor), Noyce and Moore (Intel), Jobs and Wozniak (Apple) to name a few. The right mix of individuals on a team is also essential, the aforementioned pairings for example having a brilliant inventor or “idea man” and a highly driven and motivated technical manager. Spectacular failures are also borne out by individuals unwilling or unable to share information and cooperate (Atanasoff and Shockley spring to mind). The book really held my attention until the invention of the PC and I enjoyed the Gates and Jobs stories. However, I found the story of the Internet and World Wide Web not as engaging, and I found myself getting a little bored towards the end of the book. Nevertheless, Isaacson does a good job and there are plenty of qualifying notes and references for follow up or more detailed reading. Definitely worth a read if the subject is of interest. Walter wrote a great book. Despite the fact that this book focuses on the digital revolution, Walter did a great job presenting complex concepts (transistors, Turing machines, and etc.) in every elegant way, so that person without any technical background can understand the importance of such innovations. I thouroughly enjoyed general analysis of why certain smart, or even genius innovators failed to populate their innovations.
... even at its most rushed, the book evinces a genuine affection for its subjects that makes it tough to resist. Isaacson confesses early on that he was once “an electronics geek who loved Heathkits and ham radios,” and that background seems to have given him keen insight into how youthful passion transforms into professional obsession. His book is thus most memorable not for its intricate accounts of astounding breakthroughs and the business dramas that followed, but rather for the quieter moments in which we realize that the most primal drive for innovators is a need to feel childlike joy. Prix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
Commment un groupe de hackers, de genies et de geeksa cree la revolution numeriqueL'auteur de la biographie magistrale de Steve Jobs parue quelques mois apres la mort du patron d'Apple et aujourd'hui adaptee au cinema nous livre un nouveau travail monumental et unique.Depuis le milieu du XIXe siecle et jusqu'a nos jours, Walter Isaacson dresse l'histoire des premieres machines, de la naissance de l'ordinateur jusqu'a l'explosion de l'ere numerique. Une formidable saga qui met en scene des hommes et des femmes de genie, des intuitions spectaculaires, des aventures industrielles totalement hors du commun.De la vision d'Ada Lovelace - fille de Byron - qui fut la premiere a imaginer que les calculatrices deviendraient des ordinateurs multitaches, aux nouvelles reflexions vertigineuses des createurs de Google, Walter Isaacson nous offre la plus stimulante galerie de portraits. L'aventure numerique n'est pas uniquement associee a l'inventivite de quelques genies - c'est une aventure collective faite de centaines d'etapes, chacune associee a la creativite d'une equipe. Comment fonctionnaient leurs esprits, quel terrain economique et social les a rendus si inventifs, qui furent les pionniers de la programmation, des circuits integres, d'internet, du web... quelles idees ont inspire des personnalites aussi fascinantes, que John Von Neumann, Alan Turing, Robert Noyce, Steve Jobs, Larry Page...A partir d'un travail de recherche colossal, d'interviews avec les grands acteurs encore vivants, d'une reflexion puissante et originale sur cette revolution en marche, Walter Isaacson fait vivre avec force l'histoire de ces batisseurs d'un nouveau monde.Traduit de l'anglais par Bernard Sigaud Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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