A review by lajacquerie
Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick

1.0

Horribly outdated by this point, Gleick's accounting of acceleration reads as a collection of new phrases/inventions/gadgets/foods/behaviors he's either annoyed with or bemused by. There were still some nuggets of interesting-ness that touched off different semi-enjoyable musings (how quickly humans adapt to new things - how doing something faster makes us inevitably imagine the old way of doing it felt horribly slow at the time - how human speech and then idea patterns are influenced by the world around them) but this could have been accomplished much better in article format.

But even if there was an updated version that's just a short story in Wired, I wouldn't want to read it.

Gleick's "The Information" was wonderful though so I'm going to continue picking up his books regardless.