... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...de nor indoctrinate but rather to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of ... ...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 se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...out regard to an individual’s ability to pay.‖ Time Line of Information Technology Revolutions Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Author A... ...s the word—‖ This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written wor... ... Egypt adopted the first alphabet, Phoenicia became the first state-level society to make extensive use of a sound-symbol alphabet, and only alphabe... ...ment of wood-block printing led to the rise in China of a highly literate society sharing the power of knowledge centuries before one arose in Europ... ...he West that it dazzled his readers. Besides flourishing in the arts, society, and social life, China also boasted:  Paper currency.  An ef...

...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 t...

...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

...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, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...