Faster : the acceleration of just about everything / James Gleick.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 2000.Edition: 1st Vintage Books edDescription: x, 330 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 067977548X
  • 9780679775485
Other title:
  • On cover: Fstr / Jms Glck
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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.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection QB209 .G48 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98632379

Originally published in the United States in hardcover in slightly differenct form by Pantheon Books ... New York, in 1952"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-311) and index.

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.

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