Paul di Filippo short story.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/faster-now

Quite a tasty little short story from one of my favourite authors.

There's more where that came from, here:-
http://motherboard.vice.com/terraform 

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One side effect of the nowt protocols is suppression of Saccadic Masking in the visual processing functions of the brain. This makes them more aware than the rest of us of the 50/60 HZ flicker of LED and energy saving fluorescent light bulbs. In extreme cases the simple act of walking through a new housing development at night can produce petit mal epilepsy unless the nowt is careful to avoid sliding their gaze across the fake, low energy, tudorbethan door lights.