Faster : the acceleration of just about everything

✍ Scribed by Gleick, James

• Publisher: New York : Vintage Books
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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