#157 The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

The computer and the internet are among the most important inventions of our era. But few people know who created them. They were not conjured up in a garage by a solo inventor, suitable to be singled out on a magazine cover. With Edison, Bell, or Morse.

Instead, most of the innovations of the digital age were done collaboratively. There were a lot of fascinating people involved. Some ingenious And f and a few, even geniuses. This is the story of those pioneers.

Hackers, inventors, and entrepreneurs. Who they were. How their minds worked. And what made them so creative? The collaboration that created the digital age was not just among peers.

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