Faster The Acceleration of Just about Everything Hardcover - 1999
by Gleick, James
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Details
- Title Faster The Acceleration of Just about Everything
- Author Gleick, James
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; First Printing
- Condition Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pantheon, New York
- Date 1999
- Bookseller's Inventory # 40573
- ISBN 9780679408376 / 0679408371
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.07 x 5.94 x 1.18 in (23.04 x 15.09 x 3.00 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Time - Psychological aspects, Time - Social aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99021640
- Dewey Decimal Code 529.7
Summary
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 down anytime soon.