...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ...scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape Scripting... ... needed for modern science to emerge in the West. 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but ... ...r winds. By the fifteenth century, their descendants had spread as far north as the seashore above Scandinavia, as far west as the Atlantic Ocean... ... is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a century before Magellan circum... ...abled him to create what may be history‘s most amazing empire. Mongolian climates challenge man and beast The Pacific Ocean‘s moisture-bearing wi... ...st riders known as arrow messengers across Mongolia five centuries before America‘s ―pony express.‖ Besides embracing the Mongol military traditi...

...This book also begins with that wondrous 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....

... 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 crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...