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James Gleick: Time Travel Beyond Physics and Fiction

2,666 views · Published 10 December 2016 · 57:35 · Indexed 18 October 2026

Channel: Chicago Humanities · 2016 · Nonprofits & Activism

Time travel is not a new concept. It’s in works by H.G. Wells and Proust, Dr. Who and Jorge Luis Borges. Acclaimed journalist and biographer James Gleick explores the subversive origins of time travel, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. A leading chronicler of science and technology—his best-selling Chaos: Making a New Science popularized the term “the butterfly effect”—Gleick helps us see our instantaneous, wired world with new clarity.

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