What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier

<p>for The Past Decade Change Seemed To Happen Over Night, Every Night. Fueled By The Exponential Rise Of Technology, The Digital Revolution Was Difficult For Many To Make Sense Of, But James Gleick Watched And Analyzed, Criticized And Commended, Participated In And Prophesized About The Instantaneous Transformations Of The World As We Knew It. <br><br><b>what Just Happened</b> Is A Collection Of Gleick&#8217;s Articles From This Equally Exciting And Terrifying Decade&#8212;remember Y2k?&#8212;that Range From Condemnations Of Maddeningly Pervasive Bugs In Microsoft Software To The Invisible Shackles We Wear In An &#8220;inescapably Connected&#8221; World. Combining Insight And Reason With Wit And Passion, <b>what Just Happened</b> Is An Essential Tour Of Our Technology-driven Mania.</p> <h3>library Journal</h3> <p>as Founder Of The Pipeline, One Of The First Portals To Give Pc Users Access To The Internet, Gleick (faster: The Acceleration Of Just About Everything) Was In The Forefront Of Providing Internet Access To Home Users. As A New York Times Editor And Reporter For Ten Years, He Also Led Journalism's Focus On Technological Change. In This Collection Of Essays, Written Between 1992 An 2001 And Originally Published In The New York Times Magazine And The New Yorker, We Are Led Back Into Territory That Once Seemed So Ominous: The Buggy Nature Of Microsoft Software, Internet Homesteading, The Y2k Scare, E-cash, Pornography On The Web, Spam, And More. What Is Perhaps Most Notable Is How Contemporary Many Of These Essays Still Seem. His 1995 Article, Making Microsoft Safe For Capitalism, For Example, Clarifies Many Of The Issues At The Heart Of The Antitrust Case Against The Software Giant, While Other Essays Address The Still Unresolved Privacy Issues Inherent In The New Technology. In Analyzing Many Of These Trends With Trenchant Humor, Gleick Entertainingly Reveals Their Import For The Lay Reader. Recommended For Public Libraries And Undergraduate Academic Libraries. Christopher Brennan, Suny At Brockport Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.</p>