The prestige of the Nobel Prize accelerated the use of lobotomies, including among famous hospitals in many countries.
Still, creating effective programs to accelerate the use of health information to improve care will be difficult.
Google has also taken steps to simplify and hopefully accelerate the use of near-field communication (NFC) for payments.
President Bush's energy plan offers a wide range of steps to accelerate the use of nuclear power.
"One of the effects of the Snowden disclosures has been to accelerate the use of default encryption by the internet companies … which was coming anyway".
As part of the stimulus package, $20 billion will be pumped into the health care system to accelerate the use of electronic health records.
In its economic recovery package, the Obama administration plans to spend $19 billion to accelerate the use of computerized medical records in doctors' offices.
Since Morsi's removal, the state has accelerated the use of lethal force to suppress demonstrations, killing some 1,000 people in a single day in August 2013.
PAUL GOLDBERGER: It's fascinating to think of 9/11 as having accelerated the use of enormous, 100+-story skyscrapers, but I don't think that's the case.
In fact, the ability to retrieve images readily from a searchable database helped accelerate the use of digital photography by news organizations.
