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From the origins of computer programming in the 1840s to the most recent iPhone release, technology has come to infiltrate every aspect of our lives. Yet, despite its constant presence, we often forget how technology innovators’ ideas become realities. Best-selling author Walter Isaacson, in conversation with philanthropist David M. Rubenstein, discusses the historical saga of the digital revolution and the creative visionaries who contributed individually and collaboratively to our contemporary technological culture.

Walter Isaacson, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, is the best-selling author of The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. David M. Rubenstein (moderator), an American philanthropist, is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO of The Carlyle Group.

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The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024

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