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.
He lives in the Hudson Valley of New York with his wife..
His latest book Isaac Newton is available from Pantheon.
He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times, founded an early Internet portal, the Pipeline, and wrote three previous books: Chaos, Genius, and Faster. com) was born in New York City in 1954. around.
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Written with fresh insight and thorough research, Faster is a wise and witty look at a harried world not likely to slow down anytime soon.
Yet for all the hours, minutes, and even seconds being saved, we\'re still filling our days to the point that we have no time for such basic human activities as eating, sex, and relating to our families.
Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond," a need-everything-yesterday sphere dominated by cell phones, computers, faxes, and remote controls.
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
