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- catalog abstract ""Society's in overdrive with no sign of braking. In elevators we maniacally smack the door close button in the hope of saving a handful of seconds. Politicians average 8.2 seconds to answer a question. Top industries are hiring on the basis of quick wits. A buffet in Japan charges by the minute. And the most advanced cases of "hurry sickness" punch 88 seconds on the microwave instead of 90 because it's faster to tap the same digit twice. Yet for all the hustle, and all of technology's increasing speed, there still seems to be less and less time to spare. When did we begin the "slide down this long, strange slope of milliseconds," and when, if ever, will it come to a stop? Book jacket."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "FSTR".
- catalog contributor b11875407.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Society's in overdrive with no sign of braking. In elevators we maniacally smack the door close button in the hope of saving a handful of seconds. Politicians average 8.2 seconds to answer a question. Top industries are hiring on the basis of quick wits. A buffet in Japan charges by the minute. And the most advanced cases of "hurry sickness" punch 88 seconds on the microwave instead of 90 because it's faster to tap the same digit twice. Yet for all the hustle, and all of technology's increasing speed, there still seems to be less and less time to spare. When did we begin the "slide down this long, strange slope of milliseconds," and when, if ever, will it come to a stop? Book jacket."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-312) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "x, 330 p. :".
- catalog identifier "067977548X".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Vintage,".
- catalog subject "QB209 .G48 1999".
- catalog subject "Time Psychological aspects Popular works.".
- catalog subject "Time Social aspects Popular works.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "FSTR".
- catalog title "Faster : the acceleration of just about everything / James Gleick.".
- catalog type "Popular works. fast".
- catalog type "text".