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by Mike Masnick




Life On Demand: We Don't Wait Around Anymore

from the good-or-bad? dept

Forbes is running a series of articles noting that one of the trends they're noticing is that, these days, everything seems to be focused on providing things "on demand", from TV (TiVo) to sleep (Ambien) to sex (Viagra). Of course, that's not necessarily a bad thing, though, we may start to lose the concept of waiting for things.

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    Jul 27th, 2004 @ 10:54am
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    by Anonymous Coward

    Demand is the word allright ...
    most people today are rude and demanding.

    Their entitled and deserve it.
    Their victimsd & liberals fer chrissakes !

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