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Isaac Newton

March 19, 2001

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 surely stand as the definitive study for a very long time to come. Fortunate Newton!" —John Banville, The Guardian

The Information

March 19, 2001

“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 reading it quickly. Imagine luxuriating on a Wi-Fi-equipped desert island with Mr. Gleick’s book, a search engine and no distractions. The Information is to the nature, history […]

Patently Absurd (2000)

March 20, 2000

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 and their special invention: “The patented One Click® feature,” Bezos calls it. Not everyone who knows Bezos as the newly minted billionaire founder of the world’s […]

Watch This Space (1995)

July 09, 1995

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, creatures of habit that we are, we strap on that extra thing—a machine worn every day by most adults in the industrialized world to display a […]

The Doctor’s Plot

May 11, 1994

In the world of unidentified flying objects, John E. Mack (or, as his book jacket labels him, “John E. Mack, M.D., the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist”) is a Mark masquerading as a Smart. Mack believes that little gray aliens have been abducting Americans in large numbers and subjecting them to various forms of unwilling sex. […]

Chasing Bugs in the Electronic Village (1992)

December 20, 1992

I couldn’t wait to buy Microsoft Word for Windows — rumored to be the new Cuisinart, Mack truck and Swiss Army knife of word-processing software, full-featured, powerful and, for a writer, the ultimate time-saving device. I was writing a long book, and I wanted the best. One day in January 1990, I finally got to […]

What Just Happened

March 19, 1988

What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier (Pantheon 2002). “A marvellous journey around our technology-drenched world…. The work of a master.” —The Independent

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