Ebook {Epub PDF} Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick

James Gleick, in Faster, puts our current culture's passion for speed into a context, historically, technically, and psychologically. We are a culture inclined towards extremism. Seldom do we create an ability to do something and then choose to foreswear it for the sake of other values; more usually we embrace it and integrate it as thoroughly as we can. "Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything" by James Gleick begins with this quote, "You are in the Directorate of Time. Naturally, you are running late." (Chapter 1, p. 3). Author James Gleick introduces the Directorate of Time, Gernot Winkler, and the existence of the plethora of atomic clocks based atop a hill near the Potomac River.  · In "Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything," James Gleick says that is what we're doing now. Life is a 33 r.p.m. record spinning .

Faster The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick ISBN ISBN Hardcover; New York: Pantheon, Aug; ISBN Overload: FASTER; The Acceleration of Just About Everything By James Gleick; Pantheon: pp., $24 By TODD GITLIN Sept. 12, 12 AM PT. From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of Genius and Chaos, a bracing 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.

"Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything" by James Gleick begins with this quote, "You are in the Directorate of Time. Naturally, you are running late." (Chapter 1, p. 3). Author James Gleick introduces the Directorate of Time, Gernot Winkler, and the existence of the plethora of atomic clocks based atop a hill near the Potomac River. 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. James Gleick was born in New York and began his career in journalism, working as an editor and reporter for the New York Times. He covered science and technology there, chronicling the rise of the Internet as the Fast Forward columnist, and in founded an Internet startup company called The Pipeline.