Faster

FEBRUARY 13, 2003

What time is it? I bet you can find 4 to 5 things where you're sitting that can tell you what time it is, and at least one of them is probably perfectly accurate or exactly 6 minutes ahead. Right? Thought so. James Gleick's book, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything is all about our obession with time and how it effects our daily lives. There was no clear message, except that we are totally and completely in love with time. Still, the book was really intriguing. He spoke about elevator logic, prioritizing events in your day, and tons of other things (normally I would be more specific, but I finished this book 2 months ago).

I definitely recommend this book to people who love to think about how society works. It is amazing to think about our dependance of time. Just about everything we do somehow correlated with a schedule or a timeframe or an era. This book puts that abstract sentence into neatly, highly interesting and entertaining chapters in a great book. [STAMP] (of approval)

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