It's highly ironic, because Italy is one European country which contains a passionate set of players, like Luca Ascani of Populis, who are really trying to grab their country by the ears and haul it into the faster era of tech startups.
He is a blue sky kind of guy, a creature of a fast-fading era.
Cynical, cyclical and Celine-like, McInerney's book suspends a certain fast-living era of New York in ambered perpetuity.
Since it began in Monterrey in 2002, it has been about setting the financial framework, and updating the rules of global development finance in a fast-changing era.
Such seamlessness presages a fast-approaching era in which the computer as an object disappears, but digital technologies become pervasive in our everyday surroundings.
And in 1993, Jack in the Box restaurants in Washington became the epicenter of the biggest outbreak of food-borne illness in the fast-food era, as more than six hundred people became ill, and four children died.
Veteran riders can remember thinking of a Yamaha RD350 or a Honda CB450 as fast — an era in which even the near-exotic Honda 750 made just 67 horsepower.
Ensuing experiments lasted almost 40 years, but Burbank russets, known today to most Americans simply as Idahos, proved to be ideal for baking, ideal for mashing and, crucially in this fast-food era, ideal for French fries.
Seconds later, an oxygen mask was lifted from an unseen patient comforted by the reassuring smile of Marcus Welby, M.D. — the general practitioner, played by Robert Young of "Father Knows Best" fame, who embodied the fast-fading era of the warm, compassionate, all-knowing family doctor.
"I think we have got to put an end to the fast-buck era.
