Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future. He investigates the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. James Gleick delivers a mind-bending exploration of time travelfrom its origins in literature and science to its influence on our understanding of time itself. James Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea that becomes part of contemporary culture-from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Jorge Luis Borges to Woody Allen. It was an era when a host of forces was converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological: the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book and an international sensation: The Time Machine. The story begins at the turn of the previous century, with the young H. “A thrilling journey of ideas.” -Boston Globeįrom the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. “A bracing swim in the waters of science, technology and fiction.” -Washington Post “A time-jumping, head-tripping odyssey.” -The Millions
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |