An innovator praises Billington’s book on innovators

Matt Blum­berg, CEO of the email mar­ket­ing com­pany Return Path, writes in his blog about David Billington’s new book, The Inno­va­tors: The Engi­neer­ing Pio­neers Who Made Amer­ica Mod­ern.

“It feels at many points in the book that you could insert some dif­fer­ent names and dates and be read­ing a his­tory of the Inter­net or infor­ma­tion age,” writes Blum­berg, who grad­u­ated from Prince­ton in 1992 and who says that Billing­ton was his favorite teacher and his senior the­sis advisor.

Billing­ton talks about the book, which he wrote with his son, in this recent Q&A. Read Blumberg’s entire Only­Once blog entry here.