For humans to be intimately involved in many interconnected processes at a planetary scale carries huge risks.

ECONOMIST: The geology of the planet

This is one of those challenges in our interconnected world that can only be met when we work as an international community.

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The research community must be involved in the development of these goals, targets and indicators, recognizing interconnected issues and building on existing measure of well-being.

UNESCO: Indigenous Peoples

And, in the crisis of 2007-8, we learned something else about how modern banks can bring down themselves and the rest of us with them: in an interconnected banking world, it is uncertainty that can be the worst poison.

BBC: Why UK banks are not immune to eurozone woes

The idea is to use probes similar to those used in GAARDIAN, but interconnected in such a way that the position of a jamming device can be determined by triangulation.

ECONOMIST: GPS jamming

But in this increasingly interconnected and fiercely competitive world, our top priority has to be creating and sustaining new jobs and new opportunities for our people.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

In an interconnected world, in a global economy, nations -- including our own -- will be more prosperous and more secure when we work together.

WHITEHOUSE: China State Visit Arrival Ceremony

Some of the larger rapid transit systems have a more interconnected web of tracks and tunnels, so if maintenance is happening in one tunnel, the trains can be rerouted in a different tunnel (for example, NY MTA).

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