Speed is a virtue. Or is it?

Human achievements never come without their downsides, and those unwelcome consequences tend to have highly uneven distributions. Higher speeds and their effects have been no exception. Speed brings perils and succor: Excessive speed, in so many guises, kills—but receiving the fastest possible post-event care is the key to recovery from strokes or preventing death from internal bleeding, and the COVID-19 pandemic showed, once again, the benefits of speedy mass-scale vaccination (particularly for...