Forbes Greatest Technology Stories

Forbes Greatest Technology Stories – Jeffrey Young

Behind every great technological breakthrough are people with vision, determination and often a willingness to take enormous risks. Forbes Greatest Technology Stories: Inspiring Tales of the Entrepreneurs and Inventors Who Revolutionized Modern Business, by technology journalist Jeffrey Young, tells the stories of some of the most important of them.

Published as part of a series of books from Forbes magazine, the book profiles innovators and companies whose inventions and businesses transformed the modern world. The stories range across the history of technology, covering developments such as the telegraph, telephone, electric light, radio, television, the computer, the transistor, the integrated circuit, the personal computer, software and the early internet.

Young describes the inventors, engineers and entrepreneurs behind these innovations, their struggles and setbacks, the competition they faced, and the business strategies that turned new technologies into successful companies. He shows how inventions often depended on the work of many people, on timing and on the ability to recognize opportunities that others missed.

Each chapter is written as a self-contained story, making the book easy to read in short sessions, and together the chapters offer a broad view of how technology and business have shaped each other.

Engaging and informative, Forbes Greatest Technology Stories will interest readers of business history, entrepreneurs, technology enthusiasts and students. Readers should note that the book was published in the late 1990s, so it covers the history of technology up to that time and does not include later developments.