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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 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... ...-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing ... ...erfaces in 1973 led to my appointment as adjunct professor at Benedictine University, where I built the world‘s first electronic library in 1988. Yo... ...wn personal experience picks up shortly before his left off, working in a university print shop that made textbooks with offset machines and a new va... ...pted notes randomly taken and linked to history trails recalled from high school and college studies. Especially rewarding were sweeping historie... ... Western Europe‘s economy deteriorated drastically after the breakdown of law and order in the first half of this period. The resulting unstable env... ...l laws remained in effect so long as they did not conflict with the Great Law. His new laws  Set the death penalty for robbery and ... ...nd Art Morgan, online fellow Cubs fan Hugh Riddle III, Jim M. Rogalski at Duke University Medical Center Public Relations, and Dorothy R. Werner at ...

...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....

... 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 com...

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