Many game companies, including EA, are coming out with "instant learn" games to grab mainstream customers who have been put off by complicated game routines.
Executives now expect to see tangible performance results the instant a learning program is complete.
Google is banking on Google Instant users "learning how to search better," or getting closer to the thing they were searching for, in essence optimizing the ad.
Is the sum of human knowledge much advanced by learning, instant by instant, that Marc Jacobs is having his hair dyed black, that Marc Jacobs is eating a McDonald's burger and drinking a Diet Coke, that the beautiful Patti Smith look-alike model Jamie Bochert just got engaged, that the handsome and heavily-inked hairdresser Lorenzo Martone is not Marc Jacobs's boyfriend?
The instant I learned that my connecting flight to snowbound Denver had been canceled for the next three days, my shoulders and back began to ache again.
The instant Barakat learned Corrie had been crushed to death by an Israeli-driven Caterpillar bulldozer, he began work on his documentary Rachel: An American Conscience.
At almost the same instant, she learns that Rudy Jones' stay of execution has been lifted, and opts to jet to Louisiana (when she's just started her new job!) to argue his case rather than meet the all-important witness.
In an instant, you learn what you are truly capable of.
Understanding that the Web can perpetuate information indefinitely, ProgressNow will pull the trigger the instant they learn something that could harm the opposition.
In that instant, I learned that an educated people are a successful people, because each person not only had the tools to define success, but the determination to equip others with the same.
