BMW has long prided itself in creating "ultimate driving machines" and all that Bavarian engineering pride is dramatised in the decade-by-decade progression of engines that harness ever more efficient power in steel, and car bodies that have moved with the ergonomic times.
David Victor, the University of California, San Diego, political science professor and author of "Global Warming Gridlock," noted some subtler aspects of the announcement that point to ever more efficient coal use in China, but also unrelenting growth in coal use — and carbon dioxide emissions.
The huge profits earned there enable Japanese auto makers to invest at a super-fast rate in ever more efficient production technology, all the while pricing aggressively in foreign markets.
The promise of such tools, of course, is that they will act as mechanical deputies, running the systems in our homes, our cars and our cities in ever more efficient ways, so we don't have to.
In fact, just about the only thing that is not available in unlimited supply in an ever more efficient, connected world is the product of difficult work.
That means we must all work to become ever more efficient, more effective, and more innovative: in our policies … in our products … and in our practices.
When products aren't yet good enough for mainstream customers, competitive pressures force engineers to focus on wringing the best possible performance out of each succeeding product generation by developing and combining proprietary components in ever more efficient ways.
Mr Hartley predicts that the drive to provide ever more efficient networks will mean an increase in tiered packages for light and heavy users, in the same vein as those offered by the fixed line operators.
In forcing an ever more efficient production line of high-performing school-level mathematicians and scientists, we risk strangling the creative arts.
