Faster
Subtitle: the acceleration of just about everything
By: James Gleick.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Time -- Psychological aspects -- Popular works; Time -- Social aspects -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works.
Description: "In Faster, James Gleick explores nothing less than the human condition at the turn of the millennium. He shines a light of enterprising and analytical reporting - as well as sly wit - on the newest paradoxes of time.

His journey takes us through the bunkers and trenches of a war we barely knew we were fighting: to the atomic clocks of the Directorate of Time, to the waiting rooms that focus our impatience, to the film production studios that test the high-speed limits of our perception, to the air-traffic command centers that give time pressure new meaning."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.