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James Gleick

American Author

Born: Aug 1, 1954

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I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos. There's a delicate balance. James Gleick

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Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia. James Gleick

Finished Wikipedia Combined Known Exercise Been Including

Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future. James Gleick

Life Future Events Past Real Life Our Minds Distinguish Physicists Through Open Particle Like Freeze Within Contents Occur Real Up May Cannot Explore Second

Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time. James Gleick

We choose mania over boredom every time. James Gleick

Time Every Every Time Boredom Over Mania Choose

A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a collection of text, organized in one of a variety of ways. You could say that words printed on paper and bound between cloth covers will someday be obsolete. But if and when that day comes, there will still be a thing called books. James Gleick

Day You Book Words Will Made Books Paper Say Ways Collection Kindle Someday Variety Could Bound Between Obsolete Read Printed Still Covers Text Cloth Organized Thing Necessarily

Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer. James Gleick

Politics Myself Technology People Think See About General More Writer Categories Like Most Non-Fiction Than Interested Really Granted Less

In cyberspace, the Wikipedians never stop gathering: It's a continuous round-the-clock rolling workfest. James Gleick

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