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Faster : the acceleration of just about everything

Title: Faster : the acceleration of just about everything / James Gleick.
Author: Gleick, James
Publication: New York : Pantheon Books, [1999], ©1999.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	QB209 .G48 1999	Off-site

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Time > Psychological aspects > Popular works
Time > Social aspects > Popular works

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

0679408371

LCCN

99021640

OCLC

40964840
ocm40964840

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries