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...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...
...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...r time InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedicati... ...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... ...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ...lly until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as lat... ...urprises that make up the best and most valuable books. At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newspapers during th... ...g so modest as paper despite its strength and durability. Similarly, some Christians called it an infidel technology and slowed the flow of paper in... ...arriers between Europe and Asia that the religious feud between Islam and Christianity had erected. ―The effect in diffusing and broadening men‘s... ...books: (000) Organization of knowledge (100) Philosophy (200) Theology (300) Sociology (400) Philology (500) Natural Sciences ...
...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...