This is only one of the many startling changes to have occurred recently in a country that formerly took pride in its inherent conservatism.
What formerly took a lifetime of study, if indeed it has ever been possible, can be performed rapidly and comprehensively.
Now, the Sarkars are struggling without the $800 a month they formerly took in from tenants, the husband, Mahbub Sarkar, said.
And if what we formerly took for nothing turns out, on closer examination, to have the makings of protons and neutrons and tables and chairs and planets and solar systems and galaxies and universes in it, then it wasn't nothing, and it couldn't have been nothing, in the first place.
The journey between Denmark's capital, Copenhagen, and Malmo, Sweden's third-largest city, which formerly took 45 minutes by ferry, has now been cut in half, whether by car on the upper span or on the train directly below.
Until the 1960s the most-significant factors affecting the water balance of the Aral Sea were the rates of river inflow and water loss through evaporation, which formerly took out each year about the same amount of water that the rivers brought in.
Man now reaches overnight, by places, places which formerly took weeks and months of travel" (Heidegger 1950, 165).
Dr Stephen McKeown, CEO of Analytics Engines, says the company's platform is capable of reducing some tasks which formerly took hours to perform to minutes.
