Or look at the world of high speed trading where millions of dollars balance on milliseconds of timing.
Government support, the state of the world aviation industry, the price of oil, customer support, World Trade Organization rulings, the speed of technological progress in composite materials, the reaction of industry behemoths Boeing and Airbus are all known unknowables which cause considerable uncertainty to the board of Bombardier.
Here's a central truth of our time: Talent and capital flash around the world at the speed of light in search of opportunity.
Inside lies a world of polished granite, speed-lifts, sophisticated machines and attentive nurses.
In a world where ideas and capital can move anywhere in the world at the speed of light and flock to cheap production technology and talent, what protections against the future can politicians give us?
Figures across the world of football have expressed their shock at the death of Speed, who leaves a wife and two children.
According to the latest State of the Internet report from Akamai Technologies, the U.S. ranks 9th in the world for connection speed with an average of 7.2 Mbps.
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It's the fastest passenger plane in the world, with a top speed of 700 miles an hour.
In Utah, a grad student from the University of Denver shattered a world speed record by hitting 216 MPH on a home-built electric motorcycle.
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The way agency search is practiced now is too slow for a marketing world that runs at the speed of light, and it is too expensive for companies (and agencies) that need to prevent harmful waste.
The complex is a patchwork of various connected buildings added over the years, filled with a warren of hallways and quirky features such as the World of Rubber museum, conveyor belt-like "speed ramps" that were Goodyear-made hybrids of escalators and moving walkways, and a room filled with models of Goodyear plants.
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Once the average Joe started using the Internet in earnest, things began to change at warp speed in the retail world of separating you from your money.
While not as overtly exciting or dramatic as the teleportation of an actual person, such quantum teleportation nonetheless has enormous implications for the world of computing both in terms of the amount of information that can be stored and the speed with which it can be moved around.
The weight of the world economy is moving, with remarkable speed, towards the populous emerging markets.
And one example it used to point to as a source of pride was the world-beating high-speed train system.
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But despite all the concerns about the speed of the preparations for the World Cup, Mr Loes says it will act as catalyst for Brazil's greater infrastructure development.
Air freight offers speed for the 40% of the world's trade (by value) that travels in cargo flights or in the hold of passenger aircraft, but it costs ten times more than sea transport.
We live in a world where sometimes we travel at warp speed, in terms of our attention to events.
High-speed trading has made the financial world even more of a casino game, allowing traders to pick off minuscule price movements in just thousandths of a second.
Since there is already a world-class speed-skating rink in the neighbouring province of Alberta, the Richmond rink was designed to be converted into a multipurpose community centre after the festivities conclude.
We're in a more inter-connected world, more travel, news and rumours spread at the speed of light.
But this speed limit may be breached as the brave new world of genetic engineering is brought into play.
I'm not saying he is the fastest man and will win world championships automatically as a result because speed is only one part of it - but on a lap, that man can ride faster than anyone.
In today's competitive business world, margins are being compressed, but speed is still a source of margin.
The U.S. leads the world in high-speed mobile broadband, with almost twice the number of users of second-place Japan.
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Family, friends and the football world are trying to come to terms with the death of Wales manager Gary Speed.
The 12-year-old watch brand is an infant when it comes to the venerable world of the Swiss watch industry, but it has grown up at lightning speed with technical innovations and partnerships with athletes in sports ranging from track and field to soccer to auto racing.
All the other Shinkansen routes in Japan lose cart-loads of cash, as high-speed trains do elsewhere in the world.
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