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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40964840 Title: Faster : the acceleration of just about everything Author: James Gleick Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, 1999. ISBN/ISSN: 0679408371 9780679408376 OCLC:40964840

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Faster : the acceleration of just about everything

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Faster : the acceleration of just about everything

Author:	James Gleick
Publisher:	New York : Pantheon Books, 1999.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"We have become a quick-reflexed, multi-tasking, channel-flipping, fast-forwarding species. We don't completely understand it, and we're not altogether happy about it. Faster, is a mirror held up to our times and a mordant reminder of why some things take time".
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Genre/Form:	Popular works
Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Gleick, James. Faster. New York : Pantheon Books, 1999 (OCoLC)607185767
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	James Gleick Find more information about:
ISBN:	0679408371 9780679408376
OCLC Number:	40964840
Description:	x, 324 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents:	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.
Responsibility:	James Gleick.
More information:	Contributor biographical information Sample text Publisher description

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"We have become a quick-reflexed, multi-tasking, channel-flipping, fast-forwarding species. We don't completely understand it, and we're not altogether happy about it. Faster, is a mirror held up to our times and a mordant reminder of why some things take time".

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