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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ... balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For bec... ...Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparab... ...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... ...de nor indoctrinate but rather to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of ... ...e warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By ... ...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ... wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of sc... ...lly until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as lat...

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... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern Sino-Provin... ... My Visit to Kino A Modern Sino-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO ... ...-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...................................................................... 7 THE HISTORY OF CHINA ............................................................ ................................................................ 21 DEMOCRACY AND----WESTERN STYLE TEENAGERS-DRUGS, CLOTHES, SEX ........ 22 OUR ONE CH... ...granted a freedom to experiment with social and political policies and with technology. Its progress has been even more spectacular than that of Chin... ...e in the ways of business and statesmanship. All this in a brief moment of history. It‟s like a cosmic Siegfried and Roy changing a paper tiger into... ...oncern by so many of my fellow citizens had soured me on the potentials of science and the hope of technology in delivering a utopian society to us. ... ...ledge of mental and physical health. We study the psychological and social sciences, particularly history. And we study mathematics and the natural ...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR V... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Lemuel Gulli... .................................................... 8 COMPARISON WITH INDIA AND BANGLADESH ............................................................... ...e look at a few aspects of our similarities and differences. India‘s long history, particularly with its caste system, has resulted in a number of hi... ...rs is less than half that. How can we get the best minds into the flow of technology, how can we produce a population that can earn enough to be cons... ...es, but China now seems to be winning the diploma derby. But India‘s long history with English as a primary language has made its graduates in medic... ...d Indus are tugging us backward at the same time that Indian business and science are leaping into the future. 60% of all Indians are below the age ... ... but we must be able to see as much of the whole as possible. We need the sciences to inform us and enlarge our understanding of things great and sm...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ............................................... 14 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- T... ........................................................................ 181 SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY ARE SIAMESE TWINS ...................................... ...uld it vary? 19 Should every rule be universal—never changing through history? The Ten Commandments are such a universal moral code. What if Hit... ...be given the task of healing the afflicted. In our modern world we look to science for probabilities, such as which potential cure is more likely to ... ... devil? Global warming is an alarmist misreading of a natural blip in the history of climate. There is no overpopulation problem—there is plenty roo... ...—who must find their rewards in discovering truths or otherwise advancing technology. ―Modern American youth have been told repeatedly that ...

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