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Faster : the Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>In Faster, James Gleick explores nothing less than the human condition at the turn of the millennium. He shines a light of enterprising and analytical reporting -- as well as sly wit -- on the newest paradoxes of time.</p> <h3>Salon - Edward Neuert</h3> <p><P>James Gleick's <i>Faster</i> is a wry, many-faceted meditation that takes as its starting point the notion that our lives, both at work and at leisure, have inexorably sped up. That's not a new idea, of course. Get any group of people 35 or older reminiscing, and the topic will eventually be chewed over till everyone sounds like Dana Carvey's Cranky Old Man on <i>Saturday Night Live</i>: Why, we remember the days when you had to actually go into a bank and see a teller to get cash, when nobody had a fax machine, when we had to keep from playing our favorite tunes too often because, as every audiophile knew, the grooves on the LP needed time to rest; and, dammit, we liked it that way! <P>Employing a knowing, tongue-in-cheek style and, yes, a suitably fast pace, Gleick examines every time-related dimension of life in what he calls this epoch of the nanosecond. He observes that a compression of time characterizes the life of t
Who reads Faster : the Acceleration of Just About Everything?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- James Gleick
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679775485
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Psychology, Fiction, Astronomy
- Rating
- 3.52 / 5 (1,172 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14