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"FASTER is at its best when Gleick offers a glimpse of the mechanics behind that ever-accelerating clock....But when the argument widens out to address the larger implications of these time-saving devices, the book runs headlong into something we suspected about ourselves already: we're in a rush; we've got short attention spans; everything's moving faster than it did in the old days."Gleick, James is the author of 'Faster The Acceleration of Just About Everything', published 2000 under ISBN 9780679775485 and ISBN 067977548X.
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