{"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\/pt\/2018\/03\/the-tyranny-of-convenience-made-me-think\/","title":{"rendered":"A tirania da conveni\u00eancia - fez-me pensar (via 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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\"Nas na\u00e7\u00f5es desenvolvidas do s\u00e9culo XXI, a comodidade - ou seja, formas mais eficientes e f\u00e1ceis de realizar tarefas pessoais - surgiu talvez como a for\u00e7a mais poderosa que molda as nossas vidas individuais e as nossas economias. Isto \u00e9 particularmente verdade...<\/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\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuristgerd.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}