...chnology Tales Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...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... ...r her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctri... ...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... ...tance a man could ride a horse in one day marked the physical limit of a kingdom. A king could impose his will on his troops and people only that ... ...by the distance a horse could carry a man in one day and gain control over regions large enough to grow into the world‘s first city-states. Temples,... ...edars to King Solomon (1011–931 BC). Their homeland lay along the coastal regions known today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territo... ...he Internet with its non-central, nonhierarchical nature has already been historically world changing. Recalling that more paper books were produc... ...nt when robbery usually gets only five to ten years? Here, we get to a historical perspective: You see, it has always been legal to copy just so ...

...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 book...

...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 ...