Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything

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Title Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything
Publication Type Book
Pub Year 2000
Authors Gleick, J.
Publisher Vintage
Keywords boredom
Notes boredom"Our idea of boredom--ennui, tedium, monotony, lassitude, mental doldrums--has been a modern invention. The word boredom barely existed even a century ago." (p. 270)
URL http://books.google.com/books?id=ZRSBjf9bBaMC