What Just Happened: A chronicle from the information frontier by James Gleick, Abacus, £12.99, ISBN 0349115389 Reviewed by Wendy M. Grossman
BACK at the start of the 1990s, James Gleick was minding his own business as a science writer hanging around top research labs when, in a fit of standard work avoidance, he became obsessed with his word processor. Bugs, or “issues” as Microspeak now calls them, will do that to you. There began Gleick’s collection of 10 years of essays on the digital world.
They have held up remarkably well, in part because Gleick was, and still is, more…
