A not quite recent trend in modern UIs most likely driven
by smartphones becoming ubiqitous seems to be the hapless need to 
have animated transitions between little, lesser, and no information.

This could be an effect related to the long forseen but still
debated climate change, which might have influenced (and more or
less toasted) human brains at least since the invention of the 
atomic bomb. 

Despite the increasing refresh rates of computer monitors to 100
Hz and more, optimizations of the switch time of the cells used for
composing the pixels in modern TFT displays to less than 5 ms,
the trend to UI animation neglects permanently physical laws.

Instead, it drives global warming by wasting CPU cycles for
useless computation of intermediate images produced for the sole
purpose to warm up consumer brains even further to increase
already prevalent global warming effects (and to decrease and/or
subdue intelligence of those brains, of course).

And physically it is contradictory. The images could be computed
and presented immediately. Many animations pretend a process
which in nature is slow due to mass inertia but really require
more energy as needed for the final result.

STOP WASTING ENERGY IN (USELESS SO CALLED) USER EXPERIENCES.

ELECTRONS ARE USED TO MOVE WITH THE SPEED OF LIGHT.

Pinky sez: Brains not. Remember "Max Headroom: Blipverts".

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