... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...onquests when a warrior-king in France hired a cleric educator from York, England, who would develop a significant information technology. Together,... ...d the groundwork for a coming golden age of literature and learning in an England that was gradually becoming a united kingdom. It was to Englan... ...rmanent settlements, gained control of most of the island, and renamed it England. (―Englaland‖ had been the Angles homeland in the south of the Dan... ...nglish and added greatly to its lexicon. After the Norman invasion in 1066, William the Conqueror‘s reign grafted other Scandinavian tongues ont... ...nglish-speaking British Empire Before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, fewer than a million and a half persons on this planet spoke the Eng...

...first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...