Automation is the ultimate reduction in friction because it allows optimizations to happen perpetually.
One party to that conspiracy has been the mainstream media, which, as Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn point out in their stellar new book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, is what happens when a phenomenon is extensive, entrenched, and so common as to be perpetually old news even while it's happening.
For Dibben, this allows "a comprehensive exploration of life as perpetually active experiencing, as opposed to occasional – and thoroughly passive – happening".
You are perpetually startled, not so much by surprising events (these are routine) as by the vague but unmistakable sense that things look different, that something more complicated is happening than the passive act of looking.
While the forces of democracy squared off with the forces of authoritarianism, Rockefeller was perpetually in the room with whoever happened to be in power.
But with his gaze perpetually fixed on a future that never happened, he doesn't see them.
In Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais's much-loved sitcom Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?, Bob and Terry remained perpetually stuck in an increasingly purgatorial loop of Newcastle pubs, thwarted ambitions and unsatisfactory but inescapable male friendship.
It's being alleged that the middle finger stunt may have been the brainchild of Toronto's perpetually pissed-off suburb millionaire Doug Ford, Rob's older and much less popular brother, who happens to be running for mayor in 2018.
All that happens is that the pair of them mope together, as if they are perpetually trudging through the mist and rain.
His trademark feast at Mickey D's happens to be two Big Macs, a chocolate malt, and two of the perpetually controversial Filet-O-Fish a sandwich that happens to be Desus Nice's Filet-O-Fish awell.
His trademark feast at Mickey D's happens to be two Big Macs, a chocolate malt, and two of the perpetually controversial Filet-O-Fish a sandwich that happens to be Desus Nice's Filet-O-Fish aell.
