Neither side wins without the other. The PDF is worth reading just for the chapter on the "Homebrew Computer Club," where a shy 19-year-old named Bill Gates saw his Altair BASIC software being copied for free and wrote his famous "Open Letter to Hobbyists" calling them thieves.
The digital revolution was built in the space between people —the dusty telephone cables, the ARPANET nodes, the coffee machines at Bell Labs, the poker tables at Los Alamos. Walter Isaacson The Innovators.pdf
The Innovators is not just a dry engineering text. Isaacson spends significant time on the "interface"—how we talk to machines. He follows the evolution from punch cards (ugly and hard) to the graphical user interface (GUI). Neither side wins without the other