...es 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.... ... whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in ... ...g information on page 620 and technology on page 1,211. (On page 621, it lists information science immediately before information theory. There‘s no... ...n any sounds-within-sounds that chimpanzees make. The wondrous nature of listening It‘s not just the act of speaking that‘s wondrous. As we liste... ...animals; summer, searching for green pastures; fall, drying meat and dairy products; and the long and cold winter, hunting. At the end of the first... ...ple II, Macintosh, Motorola). 1980s  The Internet is in full bloom.  IBM PC with MS-DOS, Windows, laptops.  World Wide Web, cellular phones. ... ...er Richard Feynman, who had assisted in establishing the system for using IBM punch cards for computation. Then, as a twenty-two-year-old working o...

...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. This boo...

... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ... AUTHOR BIO: Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the... ...... ... may well follow suit shortly. Earlier this year, Microsoft has shut down ListBot (a host of discussion lists). Suite101 has stopped paying its edito... ...worst deal in town. So, why the fuss? Because of Amazon's customer list. This development emphasizes the growing realization that one's list ... ...hnology, Telecommunications and New Media (Bitkom) - including Microsoft, IBM, Alcatel, Nokia, Siemens and 1300 other member firms - intend to chall... ...ative consultancy firms predict 66 million active users in 10 years time. IBM envisages 700 million users. MCI is more modest with 300 million. At t... ...s. I recall my programming days with ASSEMBLY, COBOL and PL/1 on a clunky IBM 360 and later, IBM 370. We used Hollerith punch cards. It was all very...

.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2... ... the last ten years. None of that work has been done alone. As a result, the list of people to whom I am indebted makes Oscar night acknowledgments lo... ...out the excesses of intel- lectual property. Some of them are even true. The list goes on and on. (By the end of this book, I hope to have convinced y... ...that the final arbiter of cul- ture should be the people who watch, read, and listen to it, and who remake it every day. And even if you are dubious ab... ...... ..., many people write free software because they are paid to do so. Amazingly, IBM now earns more from what it calls “Linux-related revenues” than it do... ...“Linux-related revenues” than it does from traditional patent licensing, and IBM is the largest patent holder in the world. 13 It has decided that the...

...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

...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.... ... whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in ... ...g information on page 620 and technology on page 1,211. (On page 621, it lists information science immediately before information theory. There‘s no... ...n any sounds-within-sounds that chimpanzees make. The Wondrous Nature Of Listening It‘s not just the act of speaking that‘s wondrous. As we lis... ...animals; summer, searching for green pastures; fall, drying meat and dairy products; and the long and cold winter, hunting. At the end of the fir... ...ple II, Macintosh, Motorola). 1980s  The Internet is in full bloom.  IBM PC with MS-DOS, Windows, laptops.  World Wide Web, cellular phones. ... ...er Richard Feynman, who had assisted in establishing the system for using IBM punch cards for computation. Then, as a twenty-two-year-old workin...

...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....

...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-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 co...