“…we err in presuming convenience is always good, for it has a complex relationship with other ideals that we hold dear”
Given the growth of convenience — as an ideal, as a value, as a...
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“Convenience as we now know it is a product of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when labor-saving devices for the home were invented and marketed”
Convenience as we now know it is a product of the late 19th and...
“We are spoiled by immediacy and become annoyed by tasks that remain at the old level of effort and time”
As task after task becomes easier, the growing expectation of convenience exerts a pressure...
“For all its influence as a shaper of individual decisions, the greater power of convenience may arise from decisions made in aggregate…”
For all its influence as a shaper of individual decisions, the greater power of...