Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 131 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Walter Isixen.

He's written books about such figures as Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, and

his authorized biography of Steve Jobs became one of the best-selling

biographies ever published.

He's been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine and is currently the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute.

His new book is called The Innovators, how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created

the digital revolution. And as you can probably tell from that bio, Walter has a very busy schedule,

and it took a couple weeks before he was able to squeeze us in for a phone call,

and that was in between two meetings he had.

And unfortunately, the audio quality on that call wasn't the greatest,

but given the circumstances we were just happy to be able to get him on the phone.

So I hope people still enjoy the interview because I think that what he has to say is just really, really

interesting. And so now here's our interview with Walter Isixen.

All right, so we're here with Walter Isixen. Welcome to the show.

Thank you very much. It's great to be with you.

Okay, so your new book is called The Innovators, and it's got a word from Cheryl Sandberg who says,

quote, The Innovators is a fascinating history of the digital revolution including the critical but

often forgotten role women played from the beginning.

So first off, why don't you just tell us a bit about some of the women that she wrote about

in the book?

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