Knowing what we know : the transmission of knowledge, from ancient wisdom to modern magic
by Winchester, Simon (Author)
Summary
"From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change... Full description
- Prologue: To know this only, that he nothing knew
- Teach your children well
- Gathering the harvest
- This just in
- Annals of manipulation
- Just leave the thinking to us
- The first and wisest of them all.