What is different is that our technology now allows us to transcend the barriers of distance and time much more effectively than was possible before.

FORBES: A New Kind of Distance Learning

We need to learn the lessons and ensure we can move much more quickly and effectively before such deadly diseases take hold.

CNN: Story highlights

The promise was clear: if you simply start measuring and tracking everything, from minutely segmented sales and resource usage metrics to every conceivable macroeconomic variable of remote interest, we will be able to identify all manner of relationships, correlations and insights, the net result of which will be the capacity to much more effectively and efficiently allocate resources to take advantage of opportunity and drive results.

FORBES: Big Data, Small Bets

Private-sector investment is being combined with government money for urban purposes much more widely and effectively.

ECONOMIST: With age, cities go centrifugal��but maybe not for ever

Pharmacies, sports centres and high street walk-in centres can do much more to provide primary care effectively and conveniently.

BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Alan Johnson's speech in full

"Those areas where the chief constables had decided to take pre-emptive action and get police officers on the streets quickly were able to contain this violence much more effectively, " he added.

BBC: England riots: Police operation 'flawed' say MPs

But some would-be independent candidates say it's impossible, with limited resources, to campaign effectively across areas that contain more than one million people and are much larger than parliamentary constituencies or many local authorities.

BBC: Police officers

Today, creative minds are at work developing electronic systems to track and display the energy use of institutional and individual consumers in ways that could make those users much more conscious both about how much energy they consume and about precisely what they could do to cost-effectively consume less.

WSJ: The Experts: What Will Be the Next Technological Breakthrough in Energy?