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Wired 7.08: James Gleick's Survival Lessons
Issue 7.08 August 1999. james gleick's Survival Lessons. The author of Chaosconfronts personal tragedy and the meaning of time. By David Diamond.
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Extractions: The author of Chaos confronts personal tragedy and the meaning of time. By David Diamond James Gleick is one of America's most popular and lucid science writers, author of the best-sellers Chaos and Genius and of the forthcoming Faster, a widely anticipated look at technology's hurry-up impact on modern life. He's not too keen on face-to-face communications, though, and when I first email him to ask for an interview, his replies are evasive. He is still recuperating from a long hospital stay, he writes back; he is busy writing a book: "With few interruptions, I hope, for the rest of the year, and my point is that this isn't a colorful, two-person activity." Yet, if I insist, I can see him at his place in the country. "You are welcome to ... come visit briefly," he writes. The words don't quite convey the sound of a door slamming. Yes, it looks closed. But I sense Gleick on the other side, his hand on the knob, waiting to see if I will go away. I drive out for the first time in August 1998. Gleick and his wife, Cynthia Crossen, are living full-time in the country now, about an hour north of New York City. The road up to their home is long, winding, and rich with the smell of late-summer leaves. "Climb boldly to the top," Gleick had instructed. "Stay wide on the turns."
Books By James Gleick
Books by james gleick. You may browse this author by title or by publicationdate. 45 titles (showing 120) The Best American Science
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James Gleick On What Just Happened (kottke.org)
james gleick on What Just Happened posted August 21, 2002 at 1142pm PT james gleick is one of my favorite authors, mainly because
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Extractions: James Gleick is one of my favorite authors, mainly because of Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman , a brilliant book. I went to see him tonight down in Menlo Park at Kepler's Bookstore; he was in town promoting his new book, a collection of essays on the Internet called What Just Happened From what I heard at the reading and what I've read of his writing about the Internet, what just happened was what happened with the telephone at the turn of the last century. It connected people, changed how people interacted with each other, shortened distances, and changed the world. Along the way, he mentioned how many felt wary of the Internet after 9/11 because the terrorists had used it to plan the attack, but how that could really be said about anything ( as Matt said , it's silly to ban cell phones because they can be used for potentially illegal or otherwise bad activities). So far, so good. In the course of answering a question from the audience about the future of print journalism, Gleick made a curious argument for newspapers versus online media. He said that there's a quality associated with newspapers that the Web just can't match he cited weblogs at this point, which surprised the hell out of me and that the editing process and overall ideology of a newspaper like the NY Times is missing on the Web. The way in which he said it implied that this whatever-it-was just wasn't possible on the Web, which seemed odd in light of his earlier comments.
Salon.com Technology | Remember When We Had No E-mail?
Remember when we had no email? james gleick, author of What Just Happened, explainswhat he got right, and wrong, over the last ten years. By james gleick.
http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2002/06/25/what_just_happened/

Extractions: By Katharine Mieszkowski Dot-com psychodrama or stock market machinations make most of the new books about the recent boom and bust a kind of he-said, she-said about what went wrong. But in "What Just Happened: A Chronicle From the Information Frontier," James Gleick is less concerned with who's to blame for the hoopla and its implosion than with the real changes technology has brought about in the last 10 years. During this period, Gleick covered technology for the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker, but he also experienced the migration online as a kind of host; he founded one of the early Internet service providers, Pipeline. Gleick's new book, which collects his magazine pieces from the past decade, is a kind of techie the-way-we-were, with Gleick poking fun at his own misfires.
Salon Books | A Four-minute Interview With The Author Of "Faster"
A fourminute interview with the author of Faster james gleick pauses to considerthe spiritual side of speed. - - - - By David Bowman. Oct.
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Extractions: By David Bowman Oct. 18, 1999 J ames Gleick is the author of the new book "Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything." In his book, Gleick describes the "close door" buttons in elevators as a useless pacifier for the impatient, investigates instant coffee and high-speed film and contemplates the nanoseconds saved at the microwave oven and channel surfing. He also claims we spend four minutes a day on sex. There's only one way to interview you quickly. This interview will last the same amount of time we spend daily on sex four minutes. The clock is running. You claim speed makes us superficial. But is superficiality really superficial, or could it be considered holy? [00:54] That sounds deep. You mean "holy" in a religious sense?
Jon Udell: James Gleick On Spam
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Extractions: 3/1/2003; 10:17:43 AM. Strategic Developer 10 things to know about XDocs Jean Paoli, the architect of Microsoft Office's XML capabilities, recently spent several hours showing me Microsoft's newest Office family member, InfoPath (formerly XDocs, originally NetDocs). Here are 10 things you should know about this revolutionary piece of software. Refactoring the business There is a vast gulf between the process mappers who model business systems pictorially, and the programmers who grind out the C++ or Java or .Net services that support those business systems. Between the two camps lies a fertile land of opportunity. It's time to jointly explore it. Shipping the prototype Years ago, when the paint was barely dry on Visual Basic 3.0, a developer showed me a CD-ROM-burning application he'd written using that toolkit. The idea was to prototype the UI in Visual Basic, then rewrite in C++ for performance. But in the end, he admitted somewhat sheepishly, "we shipped the prototype." I saw nothing to be ashamed of. It was and is a brilliant strategy. Towards open services SOA (service-oriented architecture), we agree, is the way of the future. We'll build loosely coupled Web services now and wire them up into composite systems later. But as "later" starts to resolve into a date like 2003, or 2004, it's also becoming clear that SOA raises challenging issues. How, for example, do you monitor, test, and debug a distributed system when only some of its components are under your direct control?
The Books: Nature's Chaos By James Gleick And Eliot Porter
In the accompanying essay, james gleick describes the surprising links being forgedbetween the abstractions of science and such vivid images of natural beauty
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TechTV | DVD Players, Wil Wheaton, James Gleick
DVD Players, Wil Wheaton, james gleick, Read the tip. james gleick Read about whatrights you're giving up when you click I Agree on license agreements.
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Extractions: From the impact of cellphones on human relationships to privacy versus goverment issues, James Gleick addresses it all in his latest book "What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier." Get more info on Gleick's books and read his take on sneaky online service and software license agreements.
TechTV | Geek Library: Chaos, By James Gleick
I picked up Chaos Making a New Science by james gleick at a time in my life whenI felt everything was subjective and there could be no definitive answers.
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Extractions: I picked up Chaos : Making a New Science by James Gleick at a time in my life when I felt everything was subjective and there could be no definitive answers. Gleick's book proved to me that I wasn't far wrong. His book also showed me where I was far wrong, and the science behind it. "Where chaos begins, classical science stops," Gleick states in the prolog. I found that my obsession with subjectivity was merely a problem in classical physics. Chaos opened my mind to the wonders of strange attractors the butterfly effect , and the Mandelbrot set Read the book if you want to know why a butterfly flapping its wings in Japan affects the weather in Iowa. This is an important book for clearing up misunderstandings over what people sometimes claim are mystical truths proved by physics.
NF > Reviews > James Gleick
Susan Stepney's Home Page NF reviews index james gleick. Search Web for jamesgleick Google search Alta Vista search Books reviews. james gleick.
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Extractions: The world really is getting faster. We are cramming more and more into our lives. We are impatient with wasted time: we push the "close" button in lifts, we squeeze in another activity while the microwave oven cooks our food in record time, TV companies edit pauses and compress speech to speed up interviews and chat shows. Gleick documents the increasingly frenetic pace of our lives, and includes various anecdotes that are gloriously funny, because of the self-recognition. Unlike many decrying the increasing pace of modern life and calling for a return to simpler, gentler times, Gleick explains that we actually enjoy this faster pace, and are adapting to it the younger generation a little more successfully than the older.
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19.4. james gleick CHAOS ( Ando publishing 1996 ) recenze na knihuPavel Vachtl james gleick CHAOS ( Ando publishing 1996 )
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Extractions: ( Ando publishing 1996 ) Slovo chaos se v posledních letech stalo módním pojmem mezi filosofy, umìlci a podobnou èeládkou :-). V jejich nadení pro "chaos" lze tuit nadìji, e tento pøevrat ve vìdì znamená konec "tradièní Newtonovské vìdy" a jejího "krtícího, nelidského determinismu" ve prospìch "svobodné, chaotické imaginace". Nue, tento názor mùe vzniknout pouze pøi pohledu ze znaèné dálky, pøi neznalosti fyzikálních a matematických souvislostí TEORIE CHAOSU. Gleick, aè sám není vìdec, pøesto jako pouèený publicista dost dobøe tyto souvislosti popisuje a ukládá je do historického kontextu ( Je zajímavé, e samotný vývoj teorie chaosu byl do znaèné míry chaotický, nyní se vak zaèíná stabilizovat.) Lidstvo se v prùbìhu posledních 400 let støetávalo s rùznými druhy problémù: A)Problémy, které bylo mono exaktnì formulovat a vyøeit pomocí explicitních pøehledných vzorcù (tzv. analyticky), byly a jsou doménou matematiky od dob osvícenství. Jsou to hlavnì tzv. lineární a nìkteré speciální nelineární rovnice, které popisují nejjednoduí, nejzákladnìjí pøírodní jevy a dìje. Pomocí této matematiky, která je v mnoství pøípadù dobrým pøiblíením reality, lze létat do vesmíru, konstruovat mnohá elektronická zaøízení, vyrábìt mnoho vìcí.
Chaos - James Gleick Reviews, Ratings, Guide - Advice And Online Shopping From D
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Extractions: only Printed Books Chaos - James Gleick dooyoo user rating recommendation var ebaylabel_quot = 'Chaos - James Gleick'; var ebaylabel = escape(ebaylabel_quot.replace(/"/g,'')); var ebaylink = 'http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/cya.jsp?dooyoopartnerID=0002&url=http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/710-3024-3218-3?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult%26query='+ebaylabel+'%26ebaytag1code=3%26ebaytag1ebayctry%26maxRecordsReturned=300%26maxRecordsPerPage=50%26SortProperty=MetaEndSort%26srchdesc=y'; document.write(''); Short Description This book brings together different work in the new field of physics called the chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics, in which simple and complex causes are seen to interact. Mathematics may only be able to solve simple linear equations which experiment has pushed nature into obeying in a limited way, but now that computers can map the whole plane of solutions of non-linear equations a new vision of nature is revealed. overview reviews prices resources ...
DaveNet : James Gleick On The Patent Crisis
james gleick on the Patent Crisis. Sat, Mar 11, 2000; by Dave Winer. A pointer.By james gleick, this is the best piece I have read on the patent crisis.
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Extractions: Search Sat, Mar 11, 2000; by Dave Winer. By James Gleick, this is the best piece I have read on the patent crisis. http://www.around.com/patent.html "One thing is certain: the modern Internet entrepreneur is not a species in need of extra government incentives. If one-click ordering had not been patentable, surely Jeff Bezos would have invented it anyway in May 1997, put it to work in September 1997, seen it copied in subsequent years by Barnes and Noble and thousands of other Internet merchants, learning from his success, to the overall benefit of consumers. Surely he would have become a very rich man; and his future success would depend on his ability to continue outperforming his competitors, and to continue innovating." It's also running in today's NY Times. If you read one article on the subject read this one. Outstanding. Mail This Story
DaveNet : James Gleick On The Patent Crisis
james gleick on the Patent Crisis. Author Dave Winer, Posted 3/11/2000; 13130PM. Topic james gleick on the Patent Crisis. Msg 743 (top msg in thread).
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Extractions: Search Author: Dave Winer Posted: 3/11/2000; 1:31:30 PM Topic: James Gleick on the Patent Crisis Msg #: (top msg in thread) Prev/Next: Reads: By James Gleick, this is the best piece I have read on the patent crisis. http://www.around.com/patent.html "One thing is certain: the modern Internet entrepreneur is not a species in need of extra government incentives. If one-click ordering had not been patentable, surely Jeff Bezos would have invented it anyway in May 1997, put it to work in September 1997, seen it copied in subsequent years by Barnes and Noble and thousands of other Internet merchants, learning from his success, to the overall benefit of consumers. Surely he would have become a very rich man; and his future success would depend on his ability to continue outperforming his competitors, and to continue innovating." It's also running in today's NY Times. If you read one article on the subject read this one. Outstanding.
InfoAnarchy || Book Review: Chaos By James Gleick
Book Review Chaos by james gleick. Book Review Chaos by james gleick 3 comments (2 topical, 1 editorial, 0 pending) Post A Comment.
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Extractions: Posted on Wed Feb 20th, 2002 at 09:02:17 AM GMT "Human was the music, natural was the static." - John Updike One of my favorite books is Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (1987). This detailed history of the development of new mathematical theories dealing with complex systems is quite readable and extremely informative. My 1991 paper back reprint has an index, a detailed reference list and lots of images including a color plate. The scope of this book is huge. I recommend it, if you are into science, art or nature. I've read it once from cover to cover and for a while I have been reading sections from here and there. How do chaos theories apply to information technology? Every computer is different, spread randomly geographically, while usage and connectivity varies, as do the user's skills and use function achieved. When I read messages about people tinkering with computers and working on coding, I understand its chaotic nature. I like the layer of complexity networking provides and how communication methods are constantly evolving. They way IT stumbles forward often with unknown, unpredictable results, is similiar to the unknown variances of a fractal images. To explore the visual world of fractals, mathematics and
InfoAnarchy || Comments || Book Review: Chaos By James Gleick
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Extractions: Posted on Wed Feb 20th, 2002 at 09:02:17 AM GMT "Human was the music, natural was the static." - John Updike One of my favorite books is Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (1987). This detailed history of the development of new mathematical theories dealing with complex systems is quite readable and extremely informative. My 1991 paper back reprint has an index, a detailed reference list and lots of images including a color plate. The scope of this book is huge. I recommend it, if you are into science, art or nature. I've read it once from cover to cover and for a while I have been reading sections from here and there. How do chaos theories apply to information technology? Every computer is different, spread randomly geographically, while usage and connectivity varies, as do the user's skills and use function achieved. When I read messages about people tinkering with computers and working on coding, I understand its chaotic nature. I like the layer of complexity networking provides and how communication methods are constantly evolving. They way IT stumbles forward often with unknown, unpredictable results, is similiar to the unknown variances of a fractal images. To explore the visual world of fractals, mathematics and
James Gleick (Bold Type Magazine)
In What Just Happened, a collection of essays published over the past decade, JamesGleick traces the development of technology from its modern infancy to today
http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0502/gleick/

Extractions: Once upon a time, technology existed in a subculture, in worlds populated by scientists, mathematicians and computer geeks. Today larger society subsumed this subculture. Innovations still persist at a rapid rate, but somehow the larger world has caught up. In What Just Happened , a collection of essays published over the past decade, James Gleick traces the development of technology from its modern infancy to today. Technology changed, and continues to change, the way we communicate with each other and engage with the larger world. In "The Telephone Transformed into Almost Everything", Gleick demonstrates how the advent of modern technology came with the invention of the telephone. He addresses the new etiquette we have developed when speaking to those absent interlocutors (answering machines) and public cell phone use. Before lines of communication connected our computers, fax machines enabled the transmittal of documents, and cell phones made us reachable at any given moment, we had to wait. Time has sped up. A new kind of corporate culture, situated on campuses and clad in khakis emerged with this new technology. Microsoft, a force behind the democratization of personal computers, is the focus of an essay that examines this new breed of business. Gleick also explores the business aspect of the Internet by delving into issues surrounding the commerce that fuels it: the phenomenon of eBay, blanket marketing emails, or spam, and the development of the online marketplace.
Chaos - Making A New Science By James Gleick
Keywords Chaos Making a New ScienceTIP! by james gleick james gleick, a formerscience writer for the New York Times, resides in this exclusive category.
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Extractions: Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. James Gleick, a former science writer for the New York Times, resides in this exclusive category. In Chaos, he takes on the job of depicting the first years of the study of chaosthe seemingly random patterns that characterize many natural phenomena. This is not a purely technical book. Instead, it focuses as much on the scientists studying chaos as on the chaos itself. In the pages of Gleick's book, the reader meets dozens of extraordinary and eccentric people. For instance, Mitchell Feigenbaum, who constructed and regulated his life by a 26-hour clock and watched his waking hours come in and out of phase with those of his coworkers at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
James Gleick
james gleick. james gleick is a captivating author. Chaos The Making of a New Science,james gleick, 1987, Penguin Books, New York, NY (ISBN 0 14 00.9250 1).
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Extractions: Vivek Pandey, The University of Texas at Tyler James Gleick is a captivating author. Words alone could not be descriptive enough of his talents at capturing complex technical ideas and presenting them in plain english for the simple-minded to understand. In Chaos: The Making of a New Science , he does just that in the most adroit fashion. I will classify this one as a must read . Another book by the same author that is worthy of everyone's curiosity is Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman . Go ahead, read some non-fiction for a change. Here are the complete references: Chaos: The Making of a New Science , James Gleick, 1987, Penguin Books, New York, NY (ISBN 14 00.9250 1). Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman , James Gleick, 1992, Vintage Books, New York, NY (ISBN 0-679-74704-4).

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