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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 book also begins w...

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the ... ...r time InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedicati... ...wer within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart... ...foTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech... ...rance to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to rea... ...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 information on page 620 and technology on page 1,211. (On page 621, it lists information science immediately before information theory. There‘s no... ...classics, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey, troubadours filled memorized lists of spaces with visual details to bring to mind thousands of lines of ... ...u.‖ Those two nonsensical groupings of letters represent the approximate frequency of the 12 most commonly used English letters. They filled the ...

...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....

...esses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every living creature. Adam immediately understands God‘s words and enunciates his own....

... Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-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, a...