The Innovators: Audiobook
As an audiobook, The Innovators runs an estimated 17.2 hours (about 11.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 17.2 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 35 days |
| 1 hour / day | 18 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 12 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 17.2 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 94% of the business audiobooks we measured.
- That's 72% longer than the average business audiobook (10 hrs across 258 titles in our dataset).
Computed from business audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.
Who is this for?
Best for business listeners who want a historical setting: a long-haul epic at 17.2 hours (estimated).
About the book
2015 Audie Award Finalist for Nonfiction Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” ( The Atlantic ) story of the people who created the computer and the internet. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? The Innovators is a masterly saga of collaborative genius destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution—and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. Isaacson begins the adventure with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R.
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Start the free trialQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Innovators as an audiobook?
The Innovators runs about 17.2 hours, our estimate from its 583 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.5 hours.
Can I listen to The Innovators free?
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Is The Innovators worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.5 hours, saving 5.7 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.
When was The Innovators first published?
The Innovators by Walter Isaacson, Francisco José Ramos Mena, Marcos Pérez Sánchez was first published in 2014.
