The Innovators
I don’t give many books a 5 out of 5 rating. My 5 star fiction books include classics like Les Miserables, The Count of Monte Cristo, Lord of the Rings and Pride and Prejudice. It’s slightly easier for non-fiction books to earn 5 stars, but the standard is pretty high.
The Innovators, by Walter Isaacson, is my first 5 star rating of 2015. It has all the qualities I look for in a good non-fiction book. It is well-written, well-organized, educational and interesting. Perhaps I was especially inclined to like it since it’s very applicable to the industry in which I work.
The book follows a linear timeline of the development of technology from Ada Lovelace to the creation of modern tech companies like Google. Isaacson outlines the details of the lives of those who contributed towards the development of hardware, semiconductors, software, the Internet, personal computers and everything in...