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Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything
From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world.

Most of us suffer some



Title of ebook: Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything
ISBN: 9780446922579
Publisher: Warner Books
Internet download file size: 316 kb
Released online for download: 08-23-2002
Author of eBook: Gleick, James






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You are in the Directorate of Time. Naturally you are running late. You hurry past a glass paned vault in which the world's number one clock is soundlessly assembling each second from nine billion parts. It looks more like a rack of computers than a clock. In its core, atoms of cesium vibrate with a goose stepping pace so sure, so authoritative, so humbling—but your mind wanders. There is not a moment to lose. Striding onward, you reach the office of the director of the Directorate of Time. He is a craggy, white haired man called Gernot M. R. Winkler. He glances across the desk and says, "We have to be fast."
The directorate, an agency of the United States military, has scattered dozens of atomic clocks across a calm, manicured hilltop near the Potomac River in Washington. Armed guards stand watch at a security gatehouse down below, mainly because the Vice President's residence occupies the same grounds. Once past their scrutiny you can walk alone up the long drive to th ... read full excerpt from Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything ebook




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