Faster (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: James Gleick
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Current affairs, science, and sociology
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, Sociology, Science and technology
- Subjects: Clocks or watches, Time
James Gleick is a former science reporter for The New York Times and cofounder of an early Internet service provider, Pipeline. He has also written Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) and Chaos: Making a New Science (1987), each of which was nominated for a National Book Award.
In Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, Gleick delivers a treatise on a too-common complaint at the end of the twentieth century—the lack of time—in appropriately short, punchy bursts of easily digestible prose, one fast-paced, factoid-filled...
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