While the tech minds of California struggle to rescue people from the threat of a ten degree increase in global temperatures over the next 50 years, the tech minds of Israel struggle to protect us from the threat of a million degree increase in temperature in a crowded city over a nanosecond.
These people had less obvious injuries but had suffered an insidious threat: Their singed facial hair and sooty mouths alluded to the degree of damage that could be in their lungs raising concern that subsequent swelling could impede their ability to breathe.
In rich countries enthusiasm for new forms of prescriptive supervision seems to be directly proportional to the degree of harm suffered during the banking crisis, or to the threat from failing banks to bring down their governments with them.
While the connectivity, ubiquity and carrier subsidization of smartphones make them a triple threat, tablets have also had an impact on several device types that attained a degree of traction, such as netbooks and e-readers.