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* Home * Blog * About * Books * Contact JAMES GLEICK Menu Search Search Close Menu RECENT POSTS 29 July 2019 MOON FEVER First it was a heavenly body—a beacon, or a world, a place where no one could possibly go. Then,... by gleick comments 0 5 August 2018 “THE TELEPHONE TRANSFORMED—INTO PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING” “I carry around one of these little boxes,” says a Motorola executive, Al Zabarsky, “and get every day,... by gleick comment 1 21 December 2016 OOP: TIME TRAVELERS MISSING FROM MY BOOK TIME TRAVEL The odds that anyone’s favorite time travelers appear in the pages of Time Travel are, unfortunately, less than 100%. Perhaps... by gleick comments 10 5 November 2016 TIME FOR EARTH TIME The time has come to deep-six not just Daylight Saving Time but the whole jury-rigged scheme of time zones... by gleick comments 7 TIME TRAVEL A grand thought experiment ... The kind of book that lodges itself in the imagination, planting seeds of ideas, insights, and revelations bound to go on blossoming for the remainder of this lifetime. —Maria Popova, Brainpicker ARCHIVES & ANACHRONISMS TODAY’S DEAD END KIDS Published by gleick Who can “claim the name” of Anonymous? Anyone. The lack of identity may not be ideal for organizing a political philosophy or program, but that is not seen as... 28 December 2014 comment 1 Archive TOTAL NOISE, ONLY LOUDER Published by gleick Kids used to ask each other: If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears, does it make a sound? Now there’s a microphone in every tree... 20 March 2014 comments 0 Archive WIKIPEDIA’S WOMEN PROBLEM (2013) Published by gleick There is consternation at Wikipedia over the discovery that hundreds of novelists who happen to be female were being systematically removed from the category “American novelists” and assigned to... 29 April 2013 comments 6 |, Archive, Posts HOW GOOGLE DOMINATES US (2011) Published by gleick How thoroughly and how radically Google has already transformed the information economy has not been well understood. The merchandise of the information economy is not information; it is attention.... 20 August 2011 comments 0 |, Archive TOUCHING HISTORY Published by gleick I got a thrill in December 1999 in the Reading Room of the Morgan Library in New York when the librarian, Sylvie Merian, brought me, after I had completed an... 31 July 2011 comments 0 Archive AUTOCORRECT, UNEXPURGATED Published by gleick I mention a certain writer in an email, and the reply comes back: “Comcast McCarthy??? Phoner novelist???” Oops. Did I really call him “Comcast”? No. The great god Autocorrect... 5 April 2011 comments 0 |, Archive PATENTLY ABSURD (2000) Published by gleick W hen 21st-century historians look back at the breakdown of the United States patent system, they will see a turning point in the case of Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com... 20 March 2000 comments 0 |, Archive WATCH THIS SPACE (1995) Published by gleick WHERE HUMAN ANATOMY meets data processing, there are just two important devices: the brain and the wristwatch. The brain is nice, but it doesn’t tell time very well. So,... 9 July 1995 comments 0 |, Archive About ABOUT JAMES GLEICK James Gleick’s is the author, most recently, of the Time Travel: A History. His previous book was The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, an international bestseller exploring the genesis... 21 March 2010 CONTACT Literary agent: Michael Carlisle at Inkwell Management, 521 Fifth Ave., New York 10175. Or send a message. Or OTHER BOOKS |, Book CHAOS Chaos: Making a New Science (Viking 1987) “An awe-inspiring book. Reading it gave me that sensation that someone had just found the light switch.” —Douglas Adams “This is a stunning... 20 March 2001 Book GENIUS Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Pantheon 1992). A rare, jewel-like biography… terrifically readable. It achieves an almost perfect balance between the physicist’s work and his life. —Washington Post... 19 March 2001 Book FASTER Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything (Pantheon 1999). “In years to come Faster will tell people what we were like as clearly as Dickens or Tom Wolfe.” —Patricia Volk, The New York Times. 19 March 2001 Book ISAAC NEWTON Isaac Newton (Pantheon 2003). "A masterpiece of brevity and concentration. Isaac Newton sees its angular subject in the round, presenting him as scientist and magician, believer and heretic, monster and man.... It will... 19 March 2001 |, Book THE INFORMATION “So ambitious, illuminating and sexily theoretical that it will amount to aspirational reading for many of those who have the mettle to tackle it. Don’t make the mistake of... 19 March 2001 comments 6 — * Feed * Twitter * © 2021 James Gleick