One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.
The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong - James Gleick
The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong
- James Gleick
It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-inf… - James Gleick
It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-inf…
In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity. - James Gleick
In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
Intuition was not just visual but also auditory and kinesthetic. Those who watched Feynman in moments of intense concentration came away with a stron… - James Gleick
Intuition was not just visual but also auditory and kinesthetic. Those who watched Feynman in moments of intense concentration came away with a stron…
When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive. - James Gleick
When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. - James Gleick
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom. - James Gleick
Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.
I have seen the future, and it is still in the future. - James Gleick
I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.
Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. - James Gleick
Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.
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