Older relatives are always telling me how lucky our generation is; while I love stumbling across a book perfect for an upcoming essay, the internet allows us to condense hours of research in the library into minutes with just a few Google searches.
This fall, the one-hour series also launched a condensed half-hour version to air on PBS Kids in the afternoons.
The final 111-minute edit condensed 180 hours of interviews conducted all over the world.
When the Kronos Quartet gave the world premiere of "Quartet II," it performed only a condensed, three-hour version.
Eastern on Friday, the channel was to begin carrying condensed, one-hour replays of each game of the 2011 N.B.A. finals.
But it is also true that the condensed, one-hour prime time network packages -- and the attention deficit disorder of cable news programs -- reduce the entire process to a glorified ad for anchors.
It's one of several electrifying moments in Ivo van Hove's lean, clean, condensed six-hour version of Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra which returns to the Barbican where it was first staged in 2009.
It is also possible that stocks simply move faster today because of the quicker pace of news and trading, and so drops and surges in prices that might have been spread over days in past times are now condensed within hours.
I also condensed the hour-long event into 5 key takeaway points that demonstrate just how e-commerce is ready to take advantage of the $65 billion art market.
Today, Donnie Darko gets the 21st Century-throwback treatment: creators David and Henry Dutton of CineFix have "de-rezzed" the middle-schooler's Moby Dick, and condensed two hours of brooding, benchmark cinema down into three minutes and 19 seconds of 8-bit amazingness.
We manage complex patients often with four different chronic problems, trying to condense an hour's worth in a 10-minute consultation.
