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The innovators: how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution (Isaacson, W.; 2014) [book review]

ABSTRACT:

When chroniclers of technological change within the 20th century worship innovation as if it were a god, they usually feel freed of the requirement to define the thing of their worship. Therefore it is with Walter Isaacson and his popular 2014 book, The Innovators, that begins with a beguiling confession by the author that innovation is ???a buzzword, drained of clear that means.??? Instead of address the implications of the elusiveness of the innovation concept or set down the terms of his engagement with the history of computing, that is additional closely the topic of his book, the authod does neither, thus squandering a probability to present himself as what he in all probability aspires to be: a bridge builder between the 2 mighty rivers of innovation studies. On the one hand, the author recounts the birth, life, and death of digital artifacts; on the other hand, he highlights the folks and subcultures that shape digital innovations. But without a framework for understanding innovation, as activity and aspiration, the author squanders an chance to clarify the link between the imperatives of digital electronics and the varied ways in which in which cultures and personalities construct and reconstruct their computers and pc networks in search of human aims.