Technological advances usually focus on making things faster, slicker and more efficient.
Much of the money invested in IT still goes into making things faster rather than more transparent.
"We're demystifying hair styling, making things faster and easier," said Vita Raykhman, 31, the creative director of Amika, a Brooklyn hair products company.
"The computer makes things faster and easier, but I am not sure that faster and easier are an unalloyed good," Mr. Caro said.
Until recently this meant getting papers into established public or academic libraries in multiple countries, but now electronic publication of names is permitted making things faster and easier.
And to make things faster still, the provider can put those custom addresses directly into the HOSTS file on a user's computer.
TY, via email Managing your online footprint can be difficult, with everything we do online being stored across vast numbers of data centres and cached (temporary copies saved to make things faster), or archived by the likes of https://archive.org, and with many services fighting for user numbers, it can be hard, if not impossible, to remove something from the web.
This anxiety's personal, about jobs and money and health, but also general: that we can't go on like this, running only to stand still, making things faster and faster, consuming more and more food (with consequent pressures on prices); that somehow a world of more than seven billion people is going to have to "downshift" to make it, revise its criteria of what constitutes well-being.
Speed: APIs are making things faster.
Why do we want to make things faster, smarter, better, healthier, new?
