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Abassid Dynasty
Abbey of Revesby, England
Abelard, Peter
Academie Française
Adams, Henry
Adkinsson, Jim
Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S.
The Advancement of Learning (Bacon)
The Age of Intelligent Machines (Kurzweil)
The Age of Spiritual Machines (Kurzweil)
Agricultural Revolution
Alaric (Visigoth king)
“The Aleph” (Borges)
Alfred (king of England)
Al-Hakim II (Arabic emir)
Ibn al-Haytham
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll)
Alien
Ibn al-Nafis (Muslim scholar)
alphabetic writing
Al Shugart International
amate paper
Amdahl, Gene
American Airlines
American Bosch-ARMA Corporation
American Civil War
An American Dictionary of the English Language (Webster)
American Mathematical Society, Dartmouth College
Ampex
amplifiers
The Anarchy (English war)
Andreessen, Marc
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Anschutz, Ottomar
Anselm of Canterbury
Answer Box
Antikythera mechanism
Antony, Mark
Apple
Apple 11 computer by
iPod by
iTunes by
Aquinas, Thomas. See Thomas (of) Aquinas
Arabic civilization
writings preserved by
Archimedes (Greek engineer)
Ardipithecus ramidus
Aristotle (Greek scholar)
Arpanet network
Ars Memorativa. See Art of Memory
artificial memory. See also digital memory
via audio recordings
via circuit chips
future of
via magnetic storage/recording
networking of
via photography
Art of Memory
The Art of Memory (Yates)
art, Upper Paleolithic
Ashurbanipal (Assyrian king)
Atticus (Roman scholar)
Attila (Hun ruler)
audio recordings
history of
on magnetic tape
Audubon, John James
Augustine of Hippo
Augustus (Roman emperor)
Australopithecus
automation. See also robotics
of automatons
of census process
of production machines
of stock ticker
Aztec civilization
Bacon, Roger
Bacon, Sir Francis
Balzac, Honoré de
Baran, Paul
Bardeen, John
Becket, Thomas à
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bellarmine, Cardinal
Bell, Gordon
Beowulf
Bergson, Henri
Berliner, Emile
Berners-Lee, Tim
bestiaries (Bestiarum vocabulum)
Bible
Gutenberg
King James
Tyndale English
Billings, John Shaw
Birth of a Nation
Bi Sheng
Black Death
Blue Brain Project
Boder, David
Bodley 764 (bestiary)
Saint Bonaventure
The Book of Beasts (White)
The Book of the Dead
Book of Hours
Book of the Courtier (Castiglione)
books
bestiary
encyclopedic
printing/publishing of
translation movements and
Boolean algebra
Borges, Jorge Luis
Bostrom, Nick
Bouchon, Basile
Brady, Mathew
Brahe, Tyco
brain(s). See also memory(ies)
characteristics of
evolution of
mechanical interactions with
memory storage/retrieval by
research on
robotic
Brattain, Walter
Brin, Sergey
Brockhaus Enzyklopadie
Bronze Age
Brownie Camera
Bruno, Giordano
Brutus (Roman politician)
Burke, James
Busicom
Byzantine empire
writings preserved by
cache memory
caduceus symbol
Caesar, Julius
Cài Lun
calotype process
Cambridge University, bestiary of
Camillo, Giulio
Canaanites
&Ccaron$apek, Karel
Carnegie, Andrew
Carrington Event
Carroll, Lewis
Carter, Howard
Castiglione, Baldassare
Cave of Swimmers, Egypt
Cawdrey, Robert
CBS Evening News
census
automation of
cerae
Cerf, Vinton
CERN research center, Geneva
Chambers, Ephraim
Champollion, Jean-François
Charlemagne (king of Franks)
Chartres Cathedral, France
Cherokee language
Chesterton, G. K.
China
automatons in
paper development in
Chorost, Michael
Chow, Wen Tsing
Christian churches
history filtered by
the Inquisition and
schisms of
writings preserved by
The Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis)
Chronographia (Psellos)
chunking, memorization
Church of St. James the Great, England
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
The City of God (Augustine)
Clanchy, Michael
Clark, Barney
Clark, Jim
Clement VIII, Pope
Cleopatra
codex(ices)
Codex Justinianus
collodion process
“The Coming Technological Singularity” (Vinge)
Complex Number Calculator
computers. See also digital memory
components of
Internet’s rise and
micro-
networking of
origins of
personal
Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation
Confessions (Augustine)
Conner, Finis
consciousness
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, (Macedonian emperor)
Conversations-Lexikon mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen Zeiten
Copernicus (astronomer)
Corpus Hermeticum
Corpus Juris Civilis (The Body of Civil Law)
Coysevox, Antoine
Crassus (Roman leader)
Cro-Magnon Man
Crosby, Bing
Crowley, Aleister
cuneiform, Sumerian
Cyclopedia (Chambers)
Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé
Daguerreotype process
d’Alembert, Jean le Rond
Dark Ages
Darwin Among the Machines (Dyson)
Davies, Donald
da Vinci, Leonardo
Dead Sea Scrolls
DEC VAX minicomputer
Dee, John
Deep Blue supercomputer
De Forest, Lee
Dell Computers
de Mandeville, Geoffrey
De Oratore (Cicero)
Descartes, René
de Vaucanson, Jacques
Dhul-Nun al-Misri
Dialexis
Dickson, William
dictionaries
A Dictionary of the English Language (Johnson)
Le Dictionnaire de l’Académie française
Diderot, Denis
Digesting Duck
digital memory. See also artificial memory; computers; robotics; semiconductor technology
Internet’s impact on
magnetic-based
robotics and
semiconductors and
the Singularity and
Digital Pickle
diodes
disk memory
chip memory v.
floppy
hard
Dodgson, Charles. See Carroll, Lewis
Dolby, Ray
Domesday Book
Dong-Woo, Way
Dragonheart
dragon imagery
Dragonslayer
DRAM memory
Duke Humfrey’s Library, Oxford
Dummar, G. W. A.
Dungeons & Dragons
“Dun Horse”
Dürer, Albrecht
DVDs
Dyson, Freeman
Dyson, George
Eastman, George
Eastman Kodak Company
École Polytechnique, Switzerland
Edison, Thomas Alva
Edward the Confessor (king of England)
Egypt
hieroglyphics in
Library of Alexandria in
Eidetic memory
Eleanor of Aquitaine
electrical tachyscope
Electronics
Elementarie (Mulcaster)
Elements (Euclid)
Encyclopaedia Britannica
encyclopedias
Encyclopédie
ENIAC computer
The Epic of Gilgamesh
EPROM/EEPROM memory
Erasmus (theologian)
Eratosthenes (Greek mathematician)
Etymologiae (Isidore)
Euclid (Greek mathematician)
Eumenes (Pergamon king)
evolution, human
Faggin, Federico
Fairchild Semiconductor
Fairchild, Sherman
Falcon, Jean
Fellowship of the Rings (Tolkien)
Ficino, Marsilio
flash chips
floppy disks
Fludd, Robert
“The Flute Player”
Foer, Joshua
Ford, Henry
The Four Books of Song
FOXP2 gene
Francis I (king of France)
Frankenstein (Shelley)
Franz Josef (emperor of Austria)
Frederick II (king of Prussia)
Freud, Sigmund
Fritsch, Gustav
Frohman, Dov
Fulvia (Roman noblewoman)
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Galen (Roman scholar)
Galileo
Garrett, Garet
Gates, Bill
German Academy
Gibbon, Edward
Gibson, William
Gielgud, Sir John
Gilbert, William
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Yates)
Gnosticism
Godfrey of Monmouth
Godzilla
Goodheart, Adam
Good, Irving
gramophones
“Great Harris Papyrus”
“Great Work” movement
Greece
language/texts of
machines built by
scholasticism and
Grosseteste, Robert
Grove, Andrew
Gutenberg, Johannes
Bible printed by
Hagia Sophia cathedral, Turkey
Han Dynasty (China)
Hangul, Korean
Hanseatic League
hard disks
Harry Potter series
Harvey, William
Haskins, Charles H.
Haughton, Ken
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Heisenberg Uncertainty principle
Heise, William
Henry II (king of England)
Henry III (king of France)
Henry V (king of England)
Hermes (Greek god)
Hermes Trimestigus (Hermetic figure)
Hermetic Circle
Hermeticism
Herodotus (Greek historian)
Hero of Alexandria (Greek engineer)
Hewlett-Packard
hieroglyphics, Egyptian
Hipparchus (Greek astronomer)
Historia Regum Britanniae (Godfrey of Monmouth)
Hittites
Hitzig, Eduard
Hoagland, Al
Hobbes, Thomas
The Hobbit (Tolkien)
Hoeffler, Don
Hoerni, Jean
Hoff, Ted
Hollerith, Herman
Homer (Greek poet)
Homo erectus
Homo ergaster
Homo floresiensis
Homo habilis
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo sapiens
Archaic
Homo sapiens sapiens
Hugo, Victor
humanism. See also transhumanism
Humboldt, Alexander von
Hun civilization
Hunt, William C.
hyoid bone
IBM (International Business Machines)
Ibsen, Henrik
Igbo people
The Iliad (Homer)
Imerius (Byzantine professor)
Incan civilization
Indus, Early
Industrial Revolution
second
the Inquisition
Instructions of Amenemhat
integrated circuit
Intel Corporation
“The Intergalactic Computer Network” (Licklider)
Internet
infrastructure of
knowledge influenced by
origins of
Protocol Suite (TC/IP)
search engines for
size of
Intolerance
iPods
Saint Isidore
Italian Accademia
iTunes
Jacquard, Joseph Marie
James I (king of England)
Jean, Duc du Berry
Jefferson, Thomas
Jiahu symbols
Jobs, Steve
Johnson, Rey
Johnson, Samuel
Jung, Carl
Justinian (Byzantine emperor)
Kahn, Robert
kana (Japanese language)
Kant, Immanuel
Kasparov, Garry
Kauffmann, Martin
Kennedy, Joseph
Kepler, Johannes
Kilby, Jack
kinetoscopes
klystron tube
knowledge
automation’s impact on
Internet’s impact on
as power
symbolic representations of
the Koran
Korean War
Kungshu Phan
Kurzweil, Ray
Labna (Muslim librarian)
Lang, Fritz
language. See also books; writing
artwork and
commerce’s impact on
via symbols, prehistoric
written
Larousse Grand Dictionnaire Universel
Lascaux Cave, France
Latinate languages
the legacy problem
Leonardo of Pisa
Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius
Leviathan (Hobbes)
Lévi, Eliphas
Lewis, C. S.
libraries
New York City system of
at Oxford
Library of Alexandria, Egypt
Library of Pergamum, Turkey
Licklider, Joseph Carl Robnett “Lick”
Lincoln, Abraham
Linnaeus, Carl
Lipps, Theodor
logographic writing
London After Midnight
London’s Globe (theater)
long-term memory
looms
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
Lost Illusions (Balzac)
Louis XIV (king of France)
Louis XV (king of France)
LP records
“Lucy” (Australopithecus)
Lumière, Auguste
Lumière, Louis
Luther, Martin
Lyell, Charles
Macedonian Dynasty
Machiavelli, Niccolò
MacKenzie, Murdo
“The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two” (Miller)
magnetic storage/recording
via cores
on disks
via drums
via tape
via wire
Magnetophon recorders
Mahabharata
Maimonides (Moses ben-Maimon)
The Manchurian Candidate
Marey, Étienne-Jules
Mark 1 computer
Markram, Henry
Martel, Charles
Martial (Latin poet)
Mason & Dixon (Pynchon)
Massaro, Don
Masuoka, Fujio
Mazor, Stan
de Medici, Cosimo
Meditations on Philosophy (Descartes)
Méliès, Georges
memory(ies). See also artificial memory; brain(s); digital memory; writing
artificial
art of
audio
brain process and
digital
Eidetic
emotional
episodic/explicit
instruction and
knowledge classification and
knowledge reference and
long-term
loss, cultural, of
as metaphor
natural
photography/images as
prospective
semantic/implicit
sensory
short-term
synthetic
theaters
training methods for
writing’s connection to
memory chips (silicon)
flash
volatile v. nonvolatile
memory theaters
Mercati, Giovanni
Metcalfe, Robert
Metcalfe’s Law
Metropolis
microprocessors
Microsoft
microwave transmitters
Middle Ages
Dark Ages in
literacy during
scientific study during
translation movements in
Miller, George
Milton, John
Mims, Christopher
Ming Dynasty (China)
Mishneh Torah (Maimonides)
Mithen, Steven
Modern Times
Monkeyshines No. 1
Moore, Gordon
“Moore’s Law”
More, Sir Thomas
Mosaic browser
Mosquini, Marie
MOS technology
Motorola Company
MP3 music files
MS Harley 3244 (bestiary)
MS. li.4.26 (bestiary)
Mu (king of Chou)
Muhammad (Muslim prophet)
Mulcaster, Richard
Mullin, Jack
Murrow, Edward R.
Muybridge, Eadweard
MylifeBits
Napoleon, Bonaparte
Napster
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois
National Federation of Women’s Clubs
National Library of Medicine, U.S.
Naturalis Historia (Pliny the Elder)
Neanderthal Man
Netscape Navigator
Neuromancer (Gibson)
Newton, Sir Isaac
New York Central Railroad
New York Herald
New York Public Library System
New York Sun
The New York Times
Niepce, Joseph Nicephore
Nippo Jisho
Nishimura, Makoto
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris
Noyce, Robert
Nsibidi (African language)
Octavian. See Augustus, Emperor
Odoacer (Germanic chieftain)
Odyssey (Homer)
Ohl, Russell
Olmec civilization
The Once and Future King (White)
On the Heavens (Aristotle)
Ottonian Dynasty
The Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford University, England
Bodleian Library at
packet switching
Page, Larry
paper
amate
printing’s birth and
rice
papyrus
Paracelsus (alchemist)
Paradise Lost (Milton)
Paradise Regained (Milton)
Paran, Arik
parchment
Parry, Forrest
Paul, Les
Pavlov, Ivan
Perlegos, George
petroglyphs
the Philippicae
Phillip II (king of Spain)
Philosopher’s Stone
Phoenician language
phonofilm
phonographs
Photios (Greek patriarch)
photographic memory
photography
moving
still
pictographs
Pidgin, Charles F.
Pindar (Greek poet)
pinned barrels
planar process
Plato (Greek scholar)
Pliny the Elder
Plutarch (Greek historian)
Polo, Marco
Pompey (Roman leader)
Poniatoff, Alexander
Poulsen, Valdemar
Presley, Elvis
The Prince (Machiavelli)
Principe, Lawrence M.
printing
PROM memory
Protestant Reformation
Proust, Marcel
Psellos, Michael
Ptolemy (Greek mathematician)
Pynchon, Thomas
Quintilian
quipu (proto-language)
radar
radio
RAM (random-access memory)
Ramses III, (Egyptian pharoah)
Raskin, Jef
Rassam, Hormuzd
al-Razi, Abu Bakr
Rebuilt (Chorost)
A la recherche du temps perdu (Proust)
Reign of Fire
Remington Rand
the Renaissance
Reynaud, Charles-Émile
Rhetorica ad Herennium
Richard the Lionheart (king of England)
Riskin, Jessica
Roberts, Lawrence
robotics
as assisting machines
as human machines
as living machines
Singularity concept and
ROM (read-only memory)
Roman Republic/Empire
Art of Memory in
census in
fall of
language and
writing materials in
Romulus Augustulus (Roman emperor)
Rosetta Stone
Rosicrucians, Egyptian Museum of
Rostky, George
Royal Mosque of Cordoba
Royal Society of London
Rubinstein, Jon
SABRE system
Sahakian, Barbara
Samson Agonistes (Milton)
Samsung
San Bushmen, Africa
SanDisk
Sawyer, William
Schmidt, Eric
scholasticism
Scopus
Scotus, Duns
Seagate Technology
See It Now
semiconductor technology
input-output (I/O) chips in
linear chips in
logic chips in
memory chips in
microprocessors using
Moore’s law and
MOS
planar process in
Sequoyah people
Servetus, Michael
Servius Tullius (Etruscan king)
Shannon, Claude
Shelley, Mary
Shima, Masatoshi
Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
Shockley, William
short-term memory
Shugart, Alan, Jr.
Shugart Corporation
silicon chips. See memory chips
Silicon Valley
Simonides of Ceos
Ibn Sina (Persian scholar)
Singularity concept
The Singularity is Near (Kurzweil)
Sisebut (Visigoth king)
Sistine Chapel, Italy
Skinner, B. F.
Smith, Oberlin
Socrates (Greek scholar)
Soloman (king of Israel)
The Song of the Nibelungs
The Song of Roland
Spain, writings in
Spencer, Herbert
SRAM memory
ST-506 hard disk
Stephen (king of England)
Stibitz, George
Suda
Sui Dynasty (China)
Sulla, Lucius Cornelius
Sumerian civilization
Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquinas)
Sung Dynasty (China)
Sun Studios, Memphis
syllabic writing
cuneiform as
hieroglyphics as
symbols
artwork’s use of
communication, prehistoric, and
language, written, and
memorization using
Systema Naturae (Linnaeus)
A Table Alphabeticall (Cawdrey)
tabulators
Talbot, William Fox
The Tale of the Heike
The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor
The Tale of Sinuhe
Tan Dynasty (China)
Tauschek, Gustav
Taylor, Frederick
Technology Review
television
Tenniel, Sir John
Tesla, Nikola
Texas Instruments
Theatre Optique
Theodoric (Ostrogoth ruler)
Third Reich
Thomas (of) Aquinas
Thoth (Egyptian god)
305 RAMAC computer
360/370 Series mainframes
3M Company
Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)
ticker tape machines
Tigerstedt, Eric
tintypes
Todd, Mike
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Toshiba
Total Recall (Bell)
Trajan’s Column, Rome
transhumanism
transistors
Trevelyan, George Macaulay
Tribonian (Byzantine official)
triodes
Turing, Alan
“The Turk” (automaton)
Turobong Cave, South Korea
Tyndale, William
Umar (Rashidun caliph)
Umayyad caliphate
UNISERVO system
universities, evolution of
University of Bologna
University of London
U.S. Army Signal Corps
U.S. Patent Office
Utopia (More)
vacuum tubes
Vandals
vellum
Venus of Hohle Fels
Venus of Willendorf
Vesalius, Andreas
videocassette tapes
Viehe, Frederick
View from the Window at Le Gras
Vin&ccaron$a script
Vinge, Vernor
The Virgin and St. Michael
Visigoths
Vitruvian Man
von Kempelen, Wolfgang
Ibn Wahshiyya
Wang, An
Washington, George
Watson, Thomas, Jr.
Watson, Thomas, Sr.
Webster, Noah
Wells, H. G.
Westinghouse, George
White, T. H.
William of Ockham
William the Conqueror (king of England)
Winchester technology
World War II
World Wide Mind (Chorost)
Wozniak, Steve
writing
categories of
on cerae
classification of
in codices
commerce’s impact on
cursive
as instruction tool
memory’s connection to
origins of
on paper
on papyrus
on parchment
preservation of
printing’s impact on
as reference tool
symbols’ evolution and
on vellum
word development and
Xerox
X-rays
Yan Shi
Yates, Frances
Yongle, (Chinese emperor)
Yongle Encyclopedia
Yuan Dynasty (Mongolia)
Zeno (Byzantine emperor)
Zilog
zoopraxiscope
Zuichemas, Viglius
Zuse, Conrad