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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...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.... ..., but Hindus in India and the Arabs unveil the numerical tools needed for modern science to emerge in the West. 12. Invaders from the North Scand... ...llion book titles in plain text or 2.5 million in compressed text. Such modern information technologies offer you a chance to learn how your world ... ...he same year I bought the Apple II desktop computer that introduced me to modern Information Technology. Aware that owners of Apple II desktop co... ...daily life‖ before the printed book and fully deserved to be labeled the ―art preservative of all arts.‖ For millennia, memory presided over comm... ...personal copy of Tyndale‘s 1534 New Testament is displayed at the British Museum. Most literate people recognize the King James Bible‘s excellenc... ...d from the back shop forever, as did the Linotypes except for one labeled museum piece that sits in the paper‘s public entrance lobby. One Gazett...

...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...

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