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  • The faster scale, call it fast-time, is where the design and testing and absorption into the economy of new individual technologies creates the pace at which things “become,” the pace at which new business activities and new ways of doing things form.

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

  • Right now, the computer is already so much better than human in blitz chess and fast-time controls.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Jan 2008

  • Right now, the computer is already so much better than human in blitz chess and fast-time controls.

    Susan Polgar On Chess Jan 2008

  • Preoccupied with their own relative immortality and the fate of Dominaria as real time progressed, most other tutors and scholars underused the fast-time outposts.

    Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999

  • Of the Tolarian generations, only the ones raised strictly outside of fast-time environments are looking strong enough, and Tolaria's ambient blue mana is beginning to influence their heritage too strongly.

    Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999

  • Most bloodlines have entered cascading failure because of earlier fast-time growth.

    Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999

  • We are unsure, so far, how many subjects we can hope to raise in fast-time environments, but the island's shattered time streams might work for us.

    Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999

  • So many of his subjects were born malformed, and nearly all of them, so far, turned malevolent to some degree as they matured relatively quickly in fast-time environments.

    Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999

  • Over fast-time areas the water was wicked away so quickly that the downpour simply appeared to lighten or even stop.

    Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999

  • In the moderate fast-time envelopes, where much of his actual work was accomplished by students, over seventy years of research and production had accrued.

    Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999

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