May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
6h 21m
English
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The Business and IT |
On the day of cutting off the hair Set and the Company of the Gods fastened my head to my neck, and it became as firm as it was originally. Let nothing happen to shake it off again!
—The Egyptian Book of the Dead
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
Once upon a time, businesses ran fine without computers. They had pencils; they had paper. A secretarial pool typed documents on typewriters, adding machines added numbers on paper strips, telephones and the postal system provided communications, and the most influential technologies were paperclips and staplers. It all ...