Michael Hart's Online Writings

Some Pictures of Michael Hart

Some Writings

• May The Source Be With You, Michael Hart's Hopes and Dreams for Project Gutenberg
• Michael Hart's Vision of Project Gutenberg, Still in progress, but worth a look.
• The Most Common Misconceptions of Project Gutenberg, Still in progress.
• In Defense of Project Gutenberg: The Early 2007 Edition
• A Word About Censorship and Free Speech, Why I Can't Say the Same Things to You on the Various Listservers.
• Introduction to Michael Hart's Blog, A Brief Outline of the History of Project Gutenberg, The Net, etc.
• An Introduction to Michael Hart, A Very Brief Introduction, More Later
• The Project Gutenberg Philosophy, Just A Beginning, More Later
• Who Invented eBooks?, Now That eBooks Are "Real". . .Who Get's The Credit?
• My Education, An Early Chapter From My Memoirs, More Later
• A Brief History of Project Gutenberg, Written on request, still in progress, comments welcome.
• Why You Should Support Project Gutenberg,
• eBooks Critics: Judging An eBook By Its Cover, Literally, How eBooks Critics Focus On Form/Formality Rather Than On Content
• How Gutenberg Started The Industrial Revolution, Various Ways The Gutenberg Revolution led to The Industrial Revolution.
• The Fifth Information Age, What You Didn't Know About The First Four Information Ages
• Don't Judge A Book By The Cover, Replies to comments about form and formality for eBooks.
• Why eBooks Should Be More Than eXeroxes, A Reply To Those Pushing For Scans and Canonical Errors
• The History of Publishing, A Brief History of Publishing, Censorhip, and Copyright
• Who Owns Copyrights?, Even Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens was forced to sell copyrights.
• Predictions From January 1, 2006, Please send your suggestions for predictions to be included.
• Prediction: Cell-Phone Growth Rates Will Peak In 2007-2008, Please send your suggestions for predictions to be included.
• How Much Editing? How Many Editors?, Changes being made to the traditional publishing world by the invention of eBooks, eLibraries, blogs, etc.
• In Defense of eBooks, Responses to Various Attacks
• Counting Project Gutenberg eBooks, Responses to Various Suggestions
• Fear and Fearmongering on the Internet, The uses of fear to control Internet discussion groups.
• A First Look at 3rd Millennium Media, How The Power Elite Cannot Allow Bloggers to Replace Dan Rather.
• Why So Many Dollars On Sports?, Why Don't The People Who Build Our World Get The Rewards?
• No One's Personal Taste Rules PG, How Project Gutenberg Does NOT Reflect Anyone's Personal Taste
• US School Systems, Systemic Failures, If the grass is greener on the other side of the schoolyard fence. . . ?
• Growing Up In the 1950's, Was it better growing up with The Nelsons and the Cleavers?
• The Chandelier Diatribe, Why are they promoting a new Dark Ages in the Information Age?
• The Chandelier Diatribe Revisited, another essay about promoting new Information Age Dark Ages, taken from "A Brief History Of The Internet."
• My Writing Style, A Few Comments About My Writing Style, and some Examples
• Reality Sleeves, A Few Comments About How The Media and Politicians Fake Reality
• The Cult of the Amateur, A Four Part Response to the Professional Punditry's Diatribes About the Inroads Being Made by the Internet on Their Monopolies.
• eBooks Are Winning, A Response to the Professional Punditry's Diatribes In Which They Continually Ask Why eBooks Aren't Making It Whey They Know Full Well eBooks ARE Making It.
• Einstein's Most Important Question, Einstein said, "The most important decision you will ever make is: whether you live in a positive universe or a negative universe."
• Einstein's Most Important Question, A Translation of The Essay Into Italian, Einstein said, "The most important decision you will ever make is: whether you live in a positive universe or a negative universe."

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