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...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... ...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... ...reviously available only to the most elite. Advances in literacy and self-education lead to a ―Scientific Revolution.‖ 20. Linotype‘s Digital Demi... ... and entertainment. It also garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. —Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004) The Gift of Memory With our w... ... and entertainment. It also garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after heari... ...und college not as interesting and dropped out. Hart gave it two tries in 1965 but complained that he wasn‘t learning anything. The next five year... ...the Literature of the First English Press. New York: Russell and Russell, 1965. Barnett, Linclon Kinnear. The Treasure of Our Tongue. New York: Ne... ..., from Wood Blocks to Electronics. Irvington-on- Hudson, NY: Harvey House, 1965. Smith, Richard Norton. The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert ...
...irst 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 with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves ...
...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 ...
... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...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... ...reviously available only to the most elite. Advances in literacy and self-education lead to a ―Scientific Revolution.‖ 20. Linotype‘s Digital D... ... and entertainment. It also garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education.‖ —Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004) The Gift of Memory With ou... ... and entertainment. It also garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hea... ...und college not as interesting and dropped out. Hart gave it two tries in 1965 but complained that he wasn‘t learning anything. The next five year... ...the Literature of the First English Press. New York: Russell and Russell, 1965. Barnett, Linclon Kinnear. The Treasure of Our Tongue. New York: Ne... ..., from Wood Blocks to Electronics. Irvington-on- Hudson, NY: Harvey House, 1965. Smith, Richard Norton. The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert ...
...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....
...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...