Finished off yet another amazing book today. The Innovators! I have always been in awe of the creators of technology. The people who made computers in every home a reality. The Innovators is an excellent documentation of the collaborative effort of hundreds of futuristic visionaries who have passed on innovations after another to the next generation to perfect it even more.
The book begins with the documentation of two visionaries in the 19th Century, where technology only meant innovations in the manufacturing industry. Ada Lovelace was an incredible person to have envisioned something which has become a common appliance in every home. Machines with a brain of their own with human interaction was predicted by her more than one and a half decades ago. Charles Babbage was another name you can't forget.
I Like the parts with von Neuman, who came up with the architecture of the first computer. It was well designed and the building blocks of more complicated architectures that followed.
Vannevar Bush's As We May Think came up so many times along the journey of the book. It mentioned the memex machine which is the basis of every computer in use today. The futuristic book is something I want to read some day in the future.
Bill Gates' journey in creating Microsoft is very inspiring. He worked his ass off and just kept going no matter what to achieve his goal. No wonder he is the richest man in the world. I also admire the fact that he is a complete geek, who reads philosophy, fiction, literature with equal zest as he would do with technology.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page also show that innovative and disruptive ideas are just around the corner. They solved a problem which people never thought they would ever have. I guess all good products start out with people not realizing what exactly they want. Whether it is Apple, Google, Facebook, all entered uncharted territory and created mind numbingly awesome products to which people are addicted to.
Very inspirational for managers trying to create a disruptive innovation. Collaboration is the mother of Invention, not Necessity. This is what the book taught me. Computers, from use in defence for fighting wars, became daily use appliances simulating war in games.
There is nothing else to say to these great individuals who disrupted simple human life to something awesome.
The book begins with the documentation of two visionaries in the 19th Century, where technology only meant innovations in the manufacturing industry. Ada Lovelace was an incredible person to have envisioned something which has become a common appliance in every home. Machines with a brain of their own with human interaction was predicted by her more than one and a half decades ago. Charles Babbage was another name you can't forget.
I Like the parts with von Neuman, who came up with the architecture of the first computer. It was well designed and the building blocks of more complicated architectures that followed.
Vannevar Bush's As We May Think came up so many times along the journey of the book. It mentioned the memex machine which is the basis of every computer in use today. The futuristic book is something I want to read some day in the future.
Bill Gates' journey in creating Microsoft is very inspiring. He worked his ass off and just kept going no matter what to achieve his goal. No wonder he is the richest man in the world. I also admire the fact that he is a complete geek, who reads philosophy, fiction, literature with equal zest as he would do with technology.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page also show that innovative and disruptive ideas are just around the corner. They solved a problem which people never thought they would ever have. I guess all good products start out with people not realizing what exactly they want. Whether it is Apple, Google, Facebook, all entered uncharted territory and created mind numbingly awesome products to which people are addicted to.
Very inspirational for managers trying to create a disruptive innovation. Collaboration is the mother of Invention, not Necessity. This is what the book taught me. Computers, from use in defence for fighting wars, became daily use appliances simulating war in games.
There is nothing else to say to these great individuals who disrupted simple human life to something awesome.
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