Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Harnessing The Power Of Information | Order and Disorder | Spark" video.

  1. The Sassanids had smoke signals and heliographs two thousand years earlier than Jacquard's looms. Signals. Information. How far back do the North American Amerinds' smoke signals go? . ### And incidentally, "algebra" didn't come from "jabr, meaning bonesetting. It comes from aljabr -- meaning algebra, the mathematics of solving equations. That, in turn, is related to jabr, bonesetting or assembly of parts, but the idea of a European building from a savage, ancient, Arabic notion is just false. We got the whole thing, both the word and the idea, from Arabs and Indians.
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