...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...g the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilo... ...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...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... ...Books inventor and Project Gutenberg co-founder Preface ―Knowledge is power,‖ a quote by Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim ... ... whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in ... ...g information on page 620 and technology on page 1,211. (On page 621, it lists information science immediately before information theory. There‘s no... ...o make merchants welcome, they eliminated trade barriers, maintained post stations, lowered tolls and taxes, protected caravans against bandits, and ... ...sort. Back in the twentieth century, revolutionaries first targeted radio stations because they were the primary source of information for the vast ...

...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...

...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...