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The Case for Sex Robots

Build For Tomorrow

CHAPTER

The Efficiency Paradox

Edward is an independent writer and speaker, but he's also a so called distinguished scholar of the lemelson centre for the study of invention and innovation at the smithsonian institution. Edward says, he calls it the efficiency paradox. The efficiency paradox is based on the idea that too much efficiency in the short run can make us less efficient in the long run. If you have software or any other arrangement that optimizes things too soon, you might be passing up the biggest opportunities.

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