Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything (1999) (edit title/settings)

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• Gernot M. R. Winkler: Director of the Directorate of Time.

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• “I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. You know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hour earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It—with the time change, I could be alive for ix hour in New York but dead three hour in Paris. I could get thing done, and I could also be dead.”

  Woody Allen

• “Clock cannot tell our time of day For what event to pray, Because we have no time, because We have no time until We know what time we fill, Why time is other than time was.”

  W. H. Auden

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• an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time. One nanosecond—one foot.

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• “the essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act

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• Eventually, if we pay attention to our watches, they teach us something even more valuable: that lived time is different from clock time.

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• Sociologists in several countries have found that increasing wealth and increasing education bring a sense of tension about time.

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• We believe that we possess too little of it: that is a myth we now live by.

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• geared to machines—even while they are being awakened by the ringing of a bell and gulping down their coffee in a race with the clock.”

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• “The chopping up of time into rigid periods is an invasion of freedom, and makes no allowances for differences in temperament and feeling,”

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• Perhaps these dashers, always flirting with lateness, are the victims of what some doctors and sociologists have named “hurry sickness.” Then again, perhaps it is the seemingly calm, secretly obsessive early arrivers who suffer hurry sickness more.

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• We have a word for free time: leisure. Leisure is time off the books, off the job, off the clock. If we save time, we commonly believe we are saving it for our leisure.

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• “Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man,” laments the Czech novelist Milan Kundera, suggesting by ecstasy a state of simultaneous freedom and imprisonment

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1. James Gleick (Author)

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1. John McDonough (Narrator)

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• Dewey: 304.2'3

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• Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Physics › Time
• Books › Science › Technology › Social Aspects
• Books › Science › Physics › Time
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › Social Psychology & Interactions
• Books › Nonfiction › Politics

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