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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 po... ...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...r time InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedicati... ...e InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedication t... ... print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human wor... ...hared more and more of that which an elite class had only previously been privy to. Before the Gutenberg Press, literacy rates were only one perce... ...e Following <<<<< Noah‘s Flood‘s Language Impact 6 Did members of an agrarian community on the northeast shores of a freshwater l... ...subject nation. That gave Genghis Khan the excuse he needed to assemble a council of his leaders to approve his call to war. His decision to cros... ...2 Over centuries, Norse and Anglo-Saxon tongues came together and became Britain’s dominant language. Then the Normans added French to that mix. I...

...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...

...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 every...

...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 ...

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