The Tyranny of Convenience Perhaps it was inevitable, then, that the second wave of convenience technologies — the period we are living in — would co-opt this ideal. Given the growth of convenience — as an ideal, as a value, as a way of life — it is worth asking what our fixation with it is doing to us and to our country. In the developed nations of the 21st century, convenience — that is, more efficient and easier ways of doing personal tasks — has emerged as perhaps the most powerful force shaping our individual lives and our economies. It is also about how we face up to situations that are thrust upon us, about overcoming worthy challenges and finishing difficult tasks — the struggles that help make us who we are. The easier it is to use Amazon, the more powerful Amazon becomes — and thus the easier it becomes to use Amazon. If the first convenience revolution promised to make life and work easier for you, the second promised to make it easier to be you.
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