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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.... ...o modern Information Technology. Aware that owners of Apple II desktop computers might have learned something about digital word processing, the ... ...rily to register accounts, Sumerian scribes wrote similar symbols on clay tablets in script known as cuneiform (cuneus: wedge; form: shaped). Th... ...crops, and livestock, not to mention taxes, payrolls, and tributes. Clay tablets the most enduring records Sumerian scribes pressed the triangu... ... Sumerian scribes pressed the triangular tip of a stylus into soft clay tablets to inscribe wedge-shaped pictographs. Each character represented a... ...on the rotary press, which spits out tens of thousands of papers an hour. Computers duplicate printers’ skills In 1980, the Kalamazoo Gazette sent... ...ader. Paperbacks cost twenty-five cents at midcentury In fact, a price comparison from when I first began to buy paperbacks, back around 1955, sh...

...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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