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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.... ...Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ―It is a matter of most importance that our government protect the right of every citizen to have access to knowledge ... ...by villages, hamlets, and irrigated fields. They served as the religious, governmental, educational, and commercial centers of their age. As templ... ...and administrative instructions all served to give coherence and scope to governmental actions across space and time. Other shape-symbol systems d... ...s Made. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Burke, James. Connections. Boston: Little Brown, 1978. Cleaves, Francis Woodman. The Secret History... ... University Press, 1982. Cohen, Adam. The Perfect Store: Inside eBay. Boston: Little Brown and Co., 2002. Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and S... ...rton. The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880–1955. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. Tawney, R. H. Religion and the R...

...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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