Books by Michael E. Hobart

2. Michael E. Hobart, The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide .  I wanted to love this book, and I still think it is quite important and worthy, but I don’t love reading this book.  Yet here is the first and marvelous sentence of the preface: “This book uses the history of information technology — in particular, the shift from alphabetic literacy to modern numeracy — to narrate and explain the origins of the contemporary rift between science and religion.”  After that...