Opinion: The Tyranny of Convenience

All the personal tasks in our lives are being made easier. But at what cost?

Tim Wu
9 min readAug 21, 2018

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Illustration: Hudson Christie

By Tim Wu

Convenience is the most underestimated and least understood force in the world today. As a driver of human decisions, it may not offer the illicit thrill of Freud’s unconscious sexual desires or the mathematical elegance of the economist’s…

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Tim Wu

Professor at Columbia University; author of “The Curse of Bigness,” “The Attention Merchants,” and “The Master Switch;” veteran of Silicon Valley & Obama Admin.