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Hart\n\u000f\nName and location of publisher???\n\u000fCopyright Page\n(Will iUniverse handle this during design\nwithout needing any input from me?)\n\u000f\nDEDICATION\nTo\nCAROL\nFor becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949,\nthen giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful\nfamily incomparable love, care, feeding, fun and friendship.\nAlso for her perceptive editing of my copy over many\ndecades, especially during the writing of this book.\n\u000fEpigraph\nNeither to persuade nor indoctrinate—rather\nto foster curiosity about past InfoTech.\nParaphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s\nintroduction to SEEDS OF CHANGE\n\u000f\nTABLE OF CONTENTS\nDedication\nEpigraph\nForeword\nby Michael S. Hart, eBooks inventor and Project Gutenberg co-founder\nPreface\n“Knowledge is power”—Francis Bacon. Shared knowledge empowers civilizations.\n.\nCHAPTERS\n1. Did Water Monkeys Swim Before We Spoke?\nWhence cometh language, the InfoTech that let us dominate our planet? We listen, we easily hallucinate word boundaries. No spaces—such as we use in writing this—separate spoken words. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech.\n2. The Gift of Memory\nFor millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts.\n3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?\nDid a fresh-water 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?\n4. Scripting Symbols of Shape\nScripting symbolic images let man communicate over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior kings and priests.\n5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis\nThe alphabet makes the pen mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires.\n6. China’s InfoTech. Siblings\nFor centuries the Chinese keep to themselves “the wasps’ secret,” and then develop printing blocks —the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening that dazzles Marco Polo.\n7. Islam’s Great Gifts to the West\nOne precept of the Koran states that the human world's quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves Classic wisdom and passes China’s the  wasps’ secret to the West.\n8.  Charlemagne & Medieval Europe\nThe illiterate warrior king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his Literary Arts & Sciences School System to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read.\n9. Largest Land Empire Ever\nIlliterate tribes of nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan; then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history.\n10. Mongols Open the Way\nThey open the gate blocking direct human contact between Europe and China just in time to let I.T. wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance.\n11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest\nAncient Greeks’ fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but Hindus in India and the Arabs unveil the numerical tools needed for modern science to emerge in the West.\n12. Invaders from the North\nScandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies.\n13. He Unchained Books\nThe German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind in bondage for millennia.\n14. 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