...ime InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue by Michael S. Hart Dedicati... ...InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue by Michael S. Hart Dedication t... ...urprises that make up the best and most valuable books. At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newspapers during th... ...ses that make up the best and most valuable books. At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newspapers during the hot... ...tive ranges from the Gutenberg Press to eBooks. It nicely complements Mr. Bradford‘s perspective that gives weight—well-deserved weight—to portions ... ...tive ranges from the Gutenberg Press to eBooks. It nicely complements Mr. Bradford‘s perspective that gives weight—well-deserved weight—to portions ... ...t—to portions of history he has pulled out from shadows of the past. Mr. Bradford starts with the oldest possible perspective of the word and procee... ...t—to portions of history he has pulled out from shadows of the past. Mr. Bradford starts with the oldest possible perspective of the word and procee... ...r and spawned revolutionary changes in civilization after civilization. —brad bradford Preface Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Jo...

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 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. At sixty-four, I bring another full lifetime lived both at that exact moment where my experiences could straddle working in print shops and in the current digital eBook era.. My degree in human-computer interfaces in 1973 led to my appointment as adjunct professor at Benedictine University, where I built the world‘s first electronic library in 1988. You could walk into that library, and the first thing you‘d see was the computer asking if there were any books you wanted. You se...

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 century later – in the 1980s – digital printing displaced Mergenthaler’s wondrous Linotypes....

...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... ...urprises that make up the best and most valuable books. At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newspapers during th... ...ses that make up the best and most valuable books. At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newspapers during the hot... ...tive ranges from the Gutenberg Press to eBooks. It nicely complements Mr. Bradford‘s perspective that gives weight—well-deserved weight—to portions ... ...tive ranges from the Gutenberg Press to eBooks. It nicely complements Mr. Bradford‘s perspective that gives weight—well-deserved weight—to portions ... ...to portions of history he has pulled out from shadows of the past. Mr. Bradford starts with the oldest possible perspective of the word and procee... ...to portions of history he has pulled out from shadows of the past. Mr. Bradford starts with the oldest possible perspective of the word and procee... ... and spawned revolutionary changes in civilization after civilization.‖ —Brad Bradford Preface Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Jo...

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 living creature. Adam immediately understands God‘s words and enunciates his own....

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 commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? -- 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape-Scripting symbolic images lets man communicate over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. -- 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis-The alphabet makes the pen mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings-For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ?the wasps’ secret? and then develop printing blocks—the precur...