It makes me think of Christmas – and not even the stressful, list-making, panic-buying version I've come to actively resent as an adult, but the safe, warm, frictionless one of early childhood, where, like Wicket on that speeder bike, I wasn't required to do anything except look adorable and enjoy the ride.
I'd argue that ease of use, the frictionless click as you scroll down the page, could make it more valuable: it creates more dross to spin into gold.From a comment by Tzimisces,I think an "interesting" tab would be more helpful.
James Fallows rightly observes that not only is the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street unseemly, its frictionless gliding action suggests corruption is built right into the interface between our government and our great profit-seeking institutions.
Ubiquitous cyber-gurus, framed by colourful PowerPoint presentations reminiscent of stained glass, prophesied a digital land in which growth would be limitless, commerce frictionless and democracy direct.
No wonder it is used by 9.5m people, or 23% of the population, and transfers the equivalent of 11% of Kenya's GDP each year; or that it has inspired more than 60 similar schemes across the world.But despite the apparently frictionless transfer of money through the air, making a money-transfer system work smoothly requires a great deal of backstage effort.
That would knock the problem of stiction firmly on the head and, according to Dr Capasso, would open up the possibility of making things like frictionless ball-bearings.According to calculations made several decades ago by Evgeny Lifshitz, a Russian physicist, Casimir repulsion should be possible but you have to replace the vacuum with a fluid.
They glide around too smoothly, with the frictionless ease of a cursor across a computer screen.
In a world of frictionless, completely globalized trade, people on average would all be richer but every society would include a wider range of class, comfort, and well-being than it now does.
Omnipresent cyber-gurus, often framed by colourful PowerPoint presentations reminiscent of stained glass, prophesied a digital paradise in which not only would commerce be frictionless and growth exponential, but democracy would be direct and the nation-state would no longer exist.
This isn't a smooth, frictionless process in the real world, but it's probably not a bad approximation for how things work.Now, in order for the marginal resident to be indifferent between high-wage San Jose and low-wage Phoenix, the cost of living must be very different in the two places.
This suggests that markets are not working as well as they should, as he almost put it, and that official barriers to cross-border financial marriages should be reduced.Official blessing cannot, however, guarantee a frictionless courtship.
