I suspect that Facebook's instant split-screen group video chat Bonfire, which mimics teen app Houseparty, could go from a standalone app testing in a few countries to being baked more directly into Messenger in some form.
Heroes are often born in an instant, the split second it takes to recognize a pending disaster and react, the blink of an eye it takes a Wesley Autrey to throw himself under a subway train to save a man fallen on the tracks.
"Why, the sora rail, a small, chickenlike marsh bird that lofts into the air like a grasshopper, flies like the Wright Brothers and falls like a stone a split instant before gunners loosen the charge of shot that passes, often as not, cleanly over the backs of the birds".
Instant Poetry also splits up word lists by theme, for poets who are in a hurry.
But once you apply instant replay to other split second calls by human umpires, you'll hard time justifying why you shouldn't do it for all calls.
JustWatch CEO David Croyé explains that they've split Amazon Prime Instant Video and Amazon Instant Video into two providers for filtering purposes, but the feed's data quality is one of the worst worldwide, and they often have trouble with it.
And Philippe Manoury's "Instants Pluriels" (2008) splits the ensemble into two chamber groups that move at different speeds, but play complementary material that seems (though the effect may have been illusory) to move back and forth between them.
Featuring big-name actors such as Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, and Bruce Willis, the film, with its nonlinear plot that is loosely connected by its various characters, became an instant cult classic, as it split its audience between those who relished in the jumbled narrative and those who thought it to be overly confusing and unnecessarily violent similar to the overall reaction to.
I can't be the only one compromising my inbuilt code of ethics for a split-second of instant gratification.
Split Head has an instant death attack in which he eats you if you don't step back from his gaping mouth!
Accidents can happen in an instant, and "sometimes it's a split-second too late if they're waiting for you to tell them what to do".
