Faster by James Gleick

It's been a week since my last update. This just shows that I am NOT obsessed with updating this blog with yellow and black things. I also don't read books just because they are yellow and black. They just happen to have yellow and black covers. This one I read several years ago. It's about how in the modern times, things seem to happen faster. We have so many modern conveniences. We have cars that shorten the time taken to travel from one place to another. But paradoxically, the faster we do things, the less time we have to do them. Compare how much leisure time people 100 years ago had versus how much leisure time we have? What use are our time saving devices, if we only use the time we save to do more work? Sure we are productive but are we happy. As books usually do, this one costs about RM60 - GBP8.99. Bought it from MPH in Midvalley.