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Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything - Hardcover

Gleick, James

 
9780316883351: Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0316883352 ISBN 13: 9780316883351
Verlag: GB Gardners Books, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Time rules our lives. The frenetic purpose - more than we want to admit, is to save time. Think of one of those conveniences that best convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds: the microwave oven. In your hurry sickness, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice. Do you stand at the microwave for that minute and a half? Or is that long enough to make a quick call or run in the next room to finish paying a bill? If haste is the gas pedal for the pace of our lives, then multi-tasking is overdrive. FASTER dissects with acute insight and mordant wit our unceasing daily struggle to squeeze as much as we can - but never enough - into the 1440 minutes of each day.
Speed is the key strategy for saving time, and James Gleick shows us how in just about every area - from business cycle time to beeper medicine, from Federal Express to quick playback buttons on answering machines, from the pace of television to our growing need to do two things at once, how speed has become the experience we all have in common - it, more than the message, is what connects us.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James Gleick was an editor and reporter at the NEW YORK TIMES for ten years. He is the author of GENIUS, CHAOS, which was nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, FASTER, and WHAT JUST HAPPENED.

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Verlag
GB Gardners Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0316883352
ISBN 13 
9780316883351
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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