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• Execs also believe that speed as well as fewer in-person meetings will remain as flying across the country when you know you can get something done over Zoom may be seen as inefficient and unnecessarily expensive now.

  ‘We have the capability’: How the coronavirus crisis has accelerated advertising’s shift to agility | Kristina Monllos | September 7, 2020 | Digiday

• The IEA notes that the best technology available is more than twice as efficient as the average of what’s actually in use around the world, and three times better than the most inefficient products on the market.

  Air conditioning technology is the great missed opportunity in the fight against climate change | James Temple | September 1, 2020 | MIT Technology Review

• Up until this capture, we’d placed our noose carpets along the riverbank in areas we hoped the owls would land, which was inefficient.

  The quest to snare—and save—the world’s largest owl | Jonathan Slaght | August 28, 2020 | Popular-Science

• It is economically inefficient to preserve jobs in companies that are unlikely to survive the structural changes of the fourth industrial revolution.

  ‘We will do this together’: Germany will continue subsidizing workers’ wages through the end of 2021 | David Meyer | August 26, 2020 | Fortune

• In fact, in some ways, Xi Jinping himself was picked because of the party’s fear that, in the period after SARS, it was losing control of parts of society because it was seen as corrupt, as inefficient, as incompetent.

  Will Covid-19 Spark a Cold War (or Worse) With China? (Ep. 414) | Stephen J. Dubner | April 23, 2020 | Freakonomics