Brian Indrelunas’s Reviews > The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood > Status Update

"The book Cawdrey made was the first English dictionary. The word 'dictionary' was not in it."

It's so hard to imagine a time before writing and, I'm told, before logic.

"We see information in the foreground. But it has always been there." Still, it's fascinating to read in just the prologue how information has become the fundamental building block of everything for us 21st century folks.