...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...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 se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...experience in newspapers during the hot-metal-type era and in the initial transition to digital phototypesetting. At sixty-four, I bring another ful... ...would change the world suddenly seemed like a good idea. The revolution‘s rapid pace, howerer, soon made the public fully aware of its impact. Besi... ...lips must all work in the closest harmony to send seamless sound waves in rapid-fire coordination. We can do that about ten times faster than any so... ...ce one vellum Bible. Parchment was still often preferred to paper in the transitional era when decorative miniatures and illumination embellished m... ...was the ―Eastern Father of Printing.‖ The wood-block technique advanced rapidly. By 1000, paged books in the modern style had replaced scrolls. Tw... ...ed caravans against bandits, and instituted the use of paper money. Safe transit of goods and ideas between East and West led to an unprecedented ri...

...irst 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 book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves ...

...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

...ts reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – writ... ... A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ... ...essage? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ISBN: 9989-929... ...ndent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101. Between 1999-2002, he served as the Ec... ...Internet – A Medium or a Message? II. The Internet in the Countries in Transition III. Leapfrogging Transition IV. The Selfish Net – The Sem... ...denly emerged in whole populations. Physicists talked about sudden "phase transitions", the emergent results of a critical mass reached. A latter da... ...ies, the inertial repositories of printed matter, were overwhelmed by the rapid pace of technology and by the ephemeral and anarchic content it spawn... ...rchive.org/ "Digitized information, especially on the Internet, has such rapid turnover these days that total loss is the norm. Civilization is dev... ... months. But memory is only one aspect of computing power. Another is the rapid simultaneous advance on all technological fronts. Miniaturization an...

... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...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 se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...experience in newspapers during the hot-metal-type era and in the initial transition to digital phototypesetting. At sixty-four, I bring another ful... ...would change the world suddenly seemed like a good idea. The revolution‘s rapid pace, howerer, soon made the public fully aware of its impact. Besi... ...lips must all work in the closest harmony to send seamless sound waves in rapid-fire coordination. We can do that about ten times faster than any so... ... one vellum Bible. Parchment was still often preferred to paper in the transitional era when decorative miniatures and illumination embellished m... ...s the ―Eastern Father of Printing.‖ The wood-block technique advanced rapidly. By 1000, paged books in the modern style had replaced scrolls. Tw... ... caravans against bandits, and instituted the use of paper money. Safe transit of goods and ideas between East and West led to an unprecedented ri...

...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 ev...

...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...