Editorial Harper Collins USA
Fecha de edición septiembre 2017 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780007544455
352 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, 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.Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine.
A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological - the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilisations, and the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture - from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics.
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.
James Gleick es uno de los principales cronistas de la ciencia y la tecnología moderna. Su primer libro, Chaos, finalista del US National Book Award, ha sido traducido a veinticinco idiomas. Su biografías Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman e Isaac Newton fueron seleccionadas para el premio Pulitzer.
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