Faster : the acceleration of just about everything /
Gleick, James, 1954-
Faster : the acceleration of just about everything / James Gleick - New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2000 - 311 p.; 22 cm
Pacemaker --
Life as Type A --
Door close button --
Your other face --
Time goes standard --
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 --
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 --
Paradox of efficiency --
365 ways to save time --
Telephone lottery --
Time is not money --
Short-term memory --
Law of small numbers --
Bored --
End --
Afterword --
Acknowledgments and notes --
Index.
Overview: 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.
9780679775485
Tiempo--Aspectos psicológicos.
Tiempo--Aspectos sociales
QB 209 / G556f 2000
529.7
Faster : the acceleration of just about everything / James Gleick - New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2000 - 311 p.; 22 cm
Pacemaker --
Life as Type A --
Door close button --
Your other face --
Time goes standard --
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 --
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 --
Paradox of efficiency --
365 ways to save time --
Telephone lottery --
Time is not money --
Short-term memory --
Law of small numbers --
Bored --
End --
Afterword --
Acknowledgments and notes --
Index.
Overview: 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.
9780679775485
Tiempo--Aspectos psicológicos.
Tiempo--Aspectos sociales
QB 209 / G556f 2000
529.7