Faster The Acceleration of Just about Everything

Name: Faster The Acceleration of Just about Everything
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ISBN: 9780679775485

ISBN-10: 067977548X

ISBN-13: 9780679775485

Edition: 2000

Authors: James Gleick

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From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated auhtor of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world. Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond," a need-everything-yesterday sphere dominated by cell phones, computers, faxes, and remote controls. Yet for all the hours, minutes, and even seconds being saved, we're still filling our days to the point that we have no time for such basic human activities as eating, sex, and relating to our families. Written with fresh insight and thorough research, Faster is a wise and witty look at a harried world not likely to slow…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/5/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.94" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

He wrote the worldwide bestseller Chaos, which was nominated for the National Book Award. He was the 1990 McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University.



Pacemaker


Life as Type A


The Door Close Button


Your Other Face


Time Goes Standard


The New Accelerators


Seeing in Slow Motion


In Real Time


Lost in Time


On Internet Time


Quick--Your Opinion?


Decomposition Takes Time


On Your Mark, Get Set, Think


A Millisecond Here, a Millisecond There


1,440 Minutes a Day


Sex and Paperwork


Modern Conveniences


Jog More, Read Less


Eat and Run


How Many Hours Do You Work?


7:15. Took Shower


Attention! Multitaskers


Shot-Shot-Shot-Shot


Prest-o! Change-o!


MTV Zooms By


Allegro ma Non Troppo


Can You See It?


High-Pressure Minutes


Time and Motion


The Paradox of Efficiency


365 Ways to Save Time


The Telephone Lottery


Time Is Not Money


Short-Term Memory


The Law of Small Numbers


Bored


The End


Afterword


Acknowledgments and Notes


Index