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...Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) Described by the FT as a “688-page quick read” for the TikTok generation, Isaacson’s biography of the South African entrepreneur races along at bone-rattling...
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...Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) From its cover (echoing the design of Isaacson’s earlier biography of Steve Jobs) to its size (nearly 700 pages), this account of the world’s highest profile...
...There are also few biographers who have had so much access to powerful people as Walter Isaacson. So his biography Elon Musk is a must-read — albeit a long and dense endeavour....
...He was a democrat who supported the parliamentary reformer John Wilkes with a series of teapots championing “Wilkes and Liberty” as the calling cry of a free Britain....
...Some of the breathtaking and far-reaching developments coming out of the laboratory are detailed in The Code Breaker (Simon & Schuster, March), Walter Isaacson’s account of Jennifer Doudna and her pioneering...
...Lionel Barber’s choices My two picks are both from 2012: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson and Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, writes Lionel Barber....
...Walter Isaacson’s biography — modestly subtitled “The Biography” — interpreted the artist as a 15th century Steve Jobs and is packaged in a quartet of books on geniuses....
...The power of the design lab Jobs was a frequent visitor to Apple’s design lab, according to his biographer Walter Isaacson, and ate lunch with Sir Jonathan most days....
...Either Marchionne should have informed his directors about the seriousness of the condition — which, based on video of his last faltering public appearance in June, was becoming obvious — or his chairman John...
...Subsequent editions of this riveting story, which recounts the implosion of Theranos, the disgraced blood-testing start-up, will have to include a victory lap from investigative journalist John Carreyrou...
...He came across a line from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, where an ex-partner claims the Apple founder was so Bauhaus-obsessed that she could not be with him....
...Kreizler assembles his own team of the alienated and misjudged, including his friend John Moore, a newspaper illustrator, whom he dispatches to make a sketch of the corpse in situ, dismissed by Kreizler...
...If the government implodes again, we are going to see more migration,” Mr Isaacson said....
.../ From Jérôme Wittamer Society is hardly in need of champions of technology / From John Ure...
...As head of Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (Parc) throughout the 1990s, John Seely Brown was in charge of one of Silicon Valley’s most creative research labs....
...Apple’s executives and board members, including Cook, Ive and iTunes chief Eddy Cue, as well as former colleagues including Susan Barnes, NeXT’s finance chief, Mac marketer Dan’l Lewin, Pixar director John...
...John Ure Associate Professor and Director, TRP, University of Hong Kong...
...“Chile’s government is seeking to diversify away from its reliance on SQM to produce lithium,” says Ben Isaacson, an analyst at Scotiabank....
...Jérôme Wittamer Managing Partner, Genii Investment Management, Howald, Luxembourg ——————————————- Letter in response to this letter: Society is hardly in need of champions of technology / From John...
...Tellingly, John McCarthy, who organised the first AI conference, is shown committing the kind of act that ranks as a sin in Isaacson’s moral universe: he is said to have resisted connecting his university...
...Walter Isaacson makes the longlist with The Innovators, out in October, on the people behind the digital revolution. Julia Angwin looks at the dark side of data in Dragnet Nation....
...It’s as if corporate America is singing from a new hymnal – and it’s Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of Steve Jobs....
...Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs is published in paperback this month (Little, Brown)...
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