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Rate of Change [MultiFormat]
eBook by Bud Sparhawk
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Imagine what it must be like when the rate of change in the advancement of technology, and all the other fields of human endeavor, increases far beyond our present imagination. Every aspect of our daily life will be changed, will change, with every passing second until we reach a point where....
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Radius, 1994
Fictionwise Release Date: September 2002
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [52 KB], eReader (PDB) [25 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [11 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [10 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [62 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [82 KB], hiebook (KML) [53 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [38 KB], iSilo (PDB) [9 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [12 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [39 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [18 KB]
Words: 3030
Reading time: 8-12 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
Somewhere back in my not-very-distant past some poor benighted ancestor lived his entire miserable life in the same hovel where he was born. In all the years of wresting a living from the soil he saw few, if any changes in his environment or the society around him. Knowledge was his village's memories and the occasional word of mouth from some visiting stranger.
My great-grandfather was born in a sod-hut, cut fresh from the prairie. As a young boy he rode down the muddy roads in a mule-drawn wagon and went to his grave in a horse drawn carriage on a paved street. He was proud that the town produced a weekly paper, even if he couldn't read it.
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