{"id":109058,"date":"2018-03-23T15:13:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T15:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gerdtestpress.online\/?guid=bbb2a9f03a6b12896f68a5be63f6b480"},"modified":"2018-03-23T15:13:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T15:13:56","slug":"the-tyranny-of-convenience-made-me-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/2018\/03\/the-tyranny-of-convenience-made-me-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Die Tyrannei der Bequemlichkeit - hat mich zum Nachdenken gebracht (\u00fcber die NYT)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the developed nations of the 21st century, convenience \u2014 that is, more efficient and easier ways of doing personal tasks \u2014 has emerged as perhaps the most powerful force shaping our individual lives and our economies. This is particularly true in America, where, despite all the paeans to freedom and individuality, one sometimes wonders whether convenience is in fact the supreme value.<\/span>…as Evan Williams, a co-founder of Twitter, recently put it, \u201cConvenience decides everything.\u201d Convenience seems to make our decisions for us, trumping what we like to imagine are our true preferences. (I prefer to brew my coffee, but Starbucks instant is so convenient I hardly ever do what I \u201cprefer.\u201d) Easy is better, easiest is best<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More on what I wrote about Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read more via: Opinion | The Tyranny of Convenience, via the NYT<\/a><\/div>\n
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\"In den Industrienationen des 21. Jahrhunderts hat sich die Bequemlichkeit - d. h. effizientere und einfachere M\u00f6glichkeiten, pers\u00f6nliche Aufgaben zu erledigen - als die vielleicht st\u00e4rkste Kraft herausgestellt, die unser individuelles Leben und unsere Wirtschaft beeinflusst. Dies ist besonders tr...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":107805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1116,1091,74,37,122,756],"tags":[1352],"class_list":["post-109058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-ethics","category-futuresagency","category-insights","category-marketing","category-publishing-newspapers-magazines","category-technology-versus-humanity","tag-convenience","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}