"I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it’s like what other people are doing... [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths… and then reason up from there."
— Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson’s sweeping history of the digital revolution, tracing the pioneers who created the computer and the internet. The book explores how collaborative teamwork—rather than isolated genius—drove key breakthroughs from Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing to Steve Jobs and Larry Page. It serves as an essential chronicle of how the integration of science and the humanities shaped our modern world.