Many members of the scientific community would say our time line is too fast.

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At the same time, the price point of new technologies is dropping fast, allowing tools that were once considered space age and too expensive to be deployed at much lower costs, ad executives say.

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When it comes to getting your taxes filed on time, it can often feel like the tax deadline is coming too fast.

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One consequence of this is that we are fast approaching the time when we will have too few workers to support the non-working population.

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But these are static measures ill-suited to crises, when prices fall so fast that, by the time the protection is activated, it is already too late: the financial equivalent of opening a parachute too close to the ground.

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