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Faster: the acceleration of just about everything
Faster: the acceleration of just about everything
Author
Gleick, James
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Publication Date
1999
Language
English
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Peabody Main - Adult Nonfiction
QB 209 .G48 1999
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From the Book - 1st Vintage Books ed.
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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067977548
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