Chaos : Making a New ScienceGleick, James
9780679408376
Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything
James Gleick
ISBN 10: 0679408371 / 0-679-40837-1
ISBN 13: 9780679408376
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780679408376
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of "Chaos" and "Genius" comes a brilliantly reasoned and engaging study of the human obsession with time: ways to save it and fit more into it, and how there is never enough of it.
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"FASTER is at its best when Gleick offers a glimpse of the mechanics behind that ever-accelerating clock....But when the argument widens out to address the larger implications of these time-saving devices, the book runs headlong into something we suspected about ourselves already: we're in a rush; we've got short attention spans; everything's moving faster than it did in the old days."
Steven Johnson, Feed, September 1999
Review:"Gleick, the author of "Chaos" and a biography of Richard Feynman, has stuffed his new book with tasty factoids about our fast, fast times....But we're not just talking sound bites here. "Faster" reverberates with huge, weighty questions, such as whether we're doomed to run up against a biological speed limit set by our sluggish old carbon-based bodies and brains."
Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review, 11/07/1999
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