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Faster

James Gleick

1999324 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1999
first published
  • 1999Pantheon Books · 324 pages · ENGISBN 9780679408376
  • 2000Vintage Books · 324 pages · ENGISBN 9780375724763
  • 1999Random House Audio · ENGISBN 9780375408861
  • 1999Random House Audio · ENGISBN 9780375408878
  • 2005Abacus · 326 pagesISBN 9780349112923
  • 2000Oxmoor House · ENGISBN 9780446931304
  • 1999Little, Brown · 334 pagesISBN 9780316883351
  • 2000Vintage · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780679775485

"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.

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