...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...