With that out of the way the book itself is excellent, with the exception of the authors comments at the end of the book - he should stick with telling other peoples story. Either he reader got better or I got used to it since by the end of the book I didn't notice it much, but that was 10+ hours before I felt that way. It's extremely annoying since the guy can read well and has a pleasant voice but the pacing with all the pauses is frustrating. As you can tell I'm really annoyed by this reader and his constant pausing, particularly in the first half of the book. Retrieved 14 March 2019.If I was going to (pause) (pause) (pause) write my review (pause) (pause) in the fashion that the reader (pause) (pause) (pause) read this book (pause) (pause) it would probably read something like this sentence. '2 books that changed the way Mark Zuckerberg thinks about innovation'. 'Why Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read about the lab that has won the most Nobel Prizes'. 'How Bell Labs Invented the World We Live in Today'. 'In 'The Idea Factory,' Jon Gertner paints Bell Labs astutely'. 'Book Review: Jon Gertner's 'The Idea Factory' '.

^ a b ' 'The Idea Factory,' by Jon Gertner'.'Google X and the Science of Radical Creativity'. ^ 'The Idea Factory: How Bell Labs Created The Future'.

'Author says he could not imagine Bell Labs having a future'. 'This new laboratory will explore how people can truly flourish at work'. įacebook co-founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg recommended The Idea Factory to his book club in 2015, saying of the choice, ' very interested in what causes innovation - what kinds of people, questions and environments.' See also Three adapted excerpts from the book were published in TIME. The Idea Factory was reviewed favorably by Foreign Policy, the New York Times, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer and others. Gertner's 'portraits of Kelly and the cadre of talented scientists who worked at Bell Labs are animated by a journalistic ability to make their discoveries and inventions utterly comprehensible - indeed, thrilling - to the lay reader'. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation is a 2012 book by Jon Gertner that describes the history of Bell Labs, the research and development wing of AT&T, as well as many of its eccentric personalities, such as Claude Shannon and William Shockley. The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future Print ( hardcover), print ( paperback), e-book, audiobook

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