...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.... ...ating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―... ...s—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to ... ... leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The... ...e textbooks, organizes material in a way which most college students find foreign, but one to which I owe a great deal. I doubt I would have done ne... ... Gathering places for scholars, artists, and literati.  Sanctuaries for foreign translators, émigrés, and refugees.  Institutions of advanced lea... ...Hugh Riddle III, Jim M. Rogalski at Duke University Medical Center Public Relations, and Dorothy R. Werner at Princeton‘s Alumni Association. Unfo...

...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...

...es 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.... ...ating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―... ...s—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to ... ... leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The... ...e textbooks, organizes material in a way which most college students find foreign, but one to which I owe a great deal. I doubt I would have done ne... ... Gathering places for scholars, artists, and literati.  Sanctuaries for foreign translators, émigrés, and refugees.  Institutions of advanced lea... ...Hugh Riddle III, Jim M. Rogalski at Duke University Medical Center Public Relations, and Dorothy R. Werner at Princeton‘s Alumni Association. Unfort...

...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. This boo...