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"Think Quick ," NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW by Barbara Ehrenreich, September 12, 1999, Late Edition - Final
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"Can You Spare Seven (7) Minutes of Life to Read This? ," NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW by PATRICIA VOLK, September 2, 1999, Late Edition - Final
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Stop Me! (James Gleick)
(Before I shop again.) E-bay deconstructed.
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Priority Mail (James Gleick)
Why electronic postage. And whose.
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Einstein (James Gleick)
A profile for the century's
end.
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What the
Beep? (James Gleick)
Our electronic devices are trying to
tell us something. But what, and which?
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Bartlett's
Updated (James Gleick)
Creating a new edition of a great book
of quotations is an adventure in cultural excavation. How did the editors
of Bartlett's do?
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"I Agree" (James Gleick)
What rights do you give away when you
blithely click that innocent-looking button?
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Accounting for Taste
(James Gleick)
On-line merchants try to read our minds.
If we like One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, will we like 10,000
Maniacs?
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Push Me, Pull
You (James Gleick)
Push was the next big thing, according
to just about everyone. Or so it seemed in the spring of
1997.
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Hold the
Spam (James Gleick)
An Internet plague that's only getting
worse.
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I Have Seen the
Future (James Gleick)
and it's still in the future. How the
Internet looked, long, long ago, to an accidental entrepreneur.
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Manual Labor (James Gleick)
Time to reset your clocks. RTFM,
they tell you. Well, just try. I did.
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Maintenance Not
Included (James Gleick)
Batteries and the hidden costs of
technology.
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A Bug and a
Crash (James Gleick)
Guess what caused the expensive crash
of the Ariane 5 in 1996. And what does it say about software
design?
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The End of Cash
(James Gleick)
Make way for digibucks, cybercash, e-bills,
and the rest. If we're going to have digital money, what's the right kind
of digital money?
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The Microsoft
Monopoly (James Gleick)
Early (1995) reporting and analysis
of the antitrust storm clouds.
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What to Do About Microsoft (James Gleick)
(A modest proposal.)
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Microspeak (James Gleick)
"Design side effects"? "Known issues"?
How they talk (and why).
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Chasing
Bugs (James Gleick)
A deeply troubled beta tester for Word
2.0 bares his soul.
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The Doctor's
Plot (James Gleick)
You don't believe people are being abducted
by aliens, do you? Wacky belief manias are a truly destructive force in our
society.
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James Gleick's Y2K prediction as of Year Minus One). In the waning days of the millennium, and what really matters? It turns out (or so it seems to James Gleick) to be not a computer bug not the bomb or the information revolution (that is, not only those things, though they are close to the heart of the story); according to Gleick, it's our altered, strained, intensified, and sometimes fractured relationship with time. To say we're in a rush doesn't even begin to cover it.
- Chaos Theory and Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" Chaos Theory: A Brief History and Its Applications to Arcadia.
- "Does Microsoft Play Fair?" Symposium at Slate Magazine.
- "FAST FORWARD: The Three Microsofts" by James Gleick The New York Times, February 14, 1999
- "Just a Glimmer - A Reading List About Novels and Digital Culture" by James Gleick The New York Times, September 7, 1997
- "Just a Glimmer - A Reading List About Novels and Digital Culture" by James Gleick The New York Times, September 7, 1997
- " Hold the Spam" by James Gleick The New York Times, December 22, 1996
- " Like Mozart? You'll Love Madonna!" by James Gleick The New York Times, October 25, 1998
- EXCERPT " Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything" by James Gleick
- "Greed Dot Com" by James Gleick The New York Times, December 27, 1998.
- "Take My E-Mail, Please" by James GleickThe New York Times, September 1, 1996.
- "Doomsday Machines" by James Gleick The New York Times, January 24, 1999.
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