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...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... ... whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in ... ...unct professor at Benedictine University, where I built the world‘s first electronic library in 1988. You could walk into that library, and the firs... ...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... ...ot crack when folded. When folded, it could be sewn together to make a codex, precursor of the books we know today. One Bible took a hundred y... ...pidly. By 1000, paged books in the modern style had replaced scrolls. Two-color printing (black and red) was seen as early as 1340. Marco Polo haile... ...am of carts carrying coveted cargo flowing out of China. In addition to colorful silk fabrics, the wide variety of goods included paper fans, porc... ...y to how indispensable they became even at the highest levels of science. Electronic InfoTech’s path to Cyberspace Now, let‘s turn back to the fr...
...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...
...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... ... whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in ... ...unct professor at Benedictine University, where I built the world‘s first electronic library in 1988. You could walk into that library, and the firs... ...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... ...ot crack when folded. When folded, it could be sewn together to make a codex, precursor of the books we know today. One Bible took a hundred y... ...pidly. By 1000, paged books in the modern style had replaced scrolls. Two-color printing (black and red) was seen as early as 1340. Marco Polo haile... ...ream of carts carrying coveted cargo flowing out of China. In addition to colorful silk fabrics, the wide variety of goods included paper fans, porc... ...y to how indispensable they became even at the highest levels of science. Electronic InfoTech’s path to Cyberspace Now, let‘s turn back to the frui...
...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...