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...“Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything,” Apple’s co-founder told the biographer Walter Isaacson about his counterpart at Microsoft....
...Martin Ford, ‘The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment’ (2015) Favourite: Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson....
...) Helen Thomas made brilliant sense of the war waging between the European Union and China over electric vehicles....
...Elon Musk biography: Walter Isaacson’s much-hyped book is long on reporting detail but shorter on the meaning of the tech entrepreneur’s work, writes Rana Foroohar....
...Tamzen Isaacson, chief executive of the UK Management Consultancies Association, said flexible working was here to stay “but it needs to be coupled with meeting client needs or client requirements”....
...As a reader of Thomas Paine, Wedgwood was equally excited by the storming of the Bastille....
...Finally, while the inaugural 2005 prize was dominated and duly won by Thomas Friedman’s sprawling paean to globalisation The World is Flat, I preferred Pietra Rivoli’s clever exploration of the phenomenon...
...Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs rested on a bookshelf beside heavy tomes on monetary economics....
...The Wise Men, by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas. It gets at the story behind the “present at the creation” period of 1940-52, when America put together the postwar international order....
...Isaacson, while granting Jobs the same status as Henry Ford or Thomas Edison, found as many people prepared to testify that he was, to the end, “charismatic and inspiring, yet also . . . an asshole”. 4....
...Inventor Nikola Tesla criticised Thomas Edison, for whom he worked briefly, for examining “straw after straw” in his search for a needle in a haystack, rather than using theory as a shortcut to the solution...
...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....
...Thomas Watson Sr and Lou Gerstner Thomas Watson Sr and Lou Gerstner both came from working-class backgrounds to head a company whose progress has done much to define the first century of the information...
...… The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, by Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, RRP£20/$35 Isaacson deserved the plaudits he received for his biography...
...In a Harvard Business Review article last year, Mr Isaacson described Jobs as one who “belongs in the pantheon of America’s great innovators, along with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Walt Disney”....
...and Evan Thomas....
...Then there is the luxe segment of the market, as in Dolce & Gabbana’s gold-embroidered collection and Jay-Z’s book, Decoded, with its gold Rorschach blot, not to mention Jon Meacham’s Thomas Jefferson: The...
...Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Isaacson’s exhaustive account deserves the wide readership it will undoubtedly get …If there is a message from [the] book, it is that Jobs the dictator was saved by his bigger...
...Isaacson introduces us to Jobs’s personal sacrifices, successes and failures – as well as the perennial challenge of juggling work-life balance....
...Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, by Walter Isaacson, Little, Brown, RRP£25 Rushed into print only weeks after the death of the Apple founder, Isaacson’s book sets out to be the definitive history of...
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