The poverty in this situation is that as we switch focus from national to local we kid ourselves that these are not linked and that for as long as we focus on one the other will take care of itself.
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And new innovations such as printed circuit technology and the white space radio spectrum (transmitting data over unused TV channel airwaves as we switch from analogue to digital TV) are all helping to create a world where everything can talk to everything else, and everything to us.
It is not something that we can switch on and off whenever it suits us.
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Mail: we could switch to weekly or monthly delivery and hardly anyone would notice. (The 1%?).
"Maybe we can switch some players (in the second leg) but the most important thing is to see if our players are fit or not, " said Benitez.
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In the next century or two, it seems likely we will switch from wind to fusion to the dilithium crystals of Star Trek, and these turbines may lose their purpose as well.
In other news, energy-efficient lighting advanced by leaps and bounds this week as we flipped the switch on IKEA's new solar-powered Solvinden lamp and we spotted a crystalline "Stardust" LED lamp made from sugar at the Milan Furniture Fair.
Sure, we need to switch off the phone and lay off the Big Macs while driving, but we also need to keep our attention tightly focused like a Formula One driver careening around a racecourse at 150 miles per hour.
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While that's hardly a chore, we can envisage some moments when we'd like some way of flicking that switch while we're on the road.
With the profits we made from the Shanghai Expo, we decided to switch our business to online games.
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Sooner or later, we will drive wild fish to extinction, unless we make the switch to farmed fish.
Most of us do it every day as we launch or switch systems or transfer interfaces on our PCs or tablet computers.
"We need to switch from mass sightseeing, " Ruan said.
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Software-wise it's just as snappy on the tablet as it is on the phone, and we noticed the switch between phone mode and tablet mode is now a tad quicker as well.
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And there are times where I want to go back and forth between my game and a movie, or times when I want to be with my friends, and we'll be watching a movie, then we want to switch to a video game, etc.
At this juncture, we had to switch sources in order to get native 4K. This was served up by an ASUS gaming PC containing a Radeon HD 7970 -- AMD's flagship graphics card that can throw a 4K signal out of its HDMI 1.4 port.
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Although it's early to start calling them out, if Blu-ray doesn't ever release 50GB discs or if the CE companies and studios switch sides we have a whole new ball game.
It's a messy situation that isn't going to get solved any time soon, especially given how much money's at stake, so maybe we should all just switch to Ogg Vorbis and save ourselves a lot of trouble?
We'll admit: we would have preferred to just tap the home button instead of click on it, especially when we were ready to switch apps, but nonetheless, Android makes for an intuitive-enough desktop operating system, what with the home screen full of shortcuts.
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We need to make the case to customers that they will benefit from this switch and right now we are just beginning the process of doing so.
We're going to switch gears now and talk about the intersection of technology and retail.
Still, we of course flipped the switch to enable them, and didn't notice any drastic change in performance.
It was not blatantly obvious, but it was prudent to switch gears as we did come from 1420 down to 1266.
Every time one show ended and another began, the stage managers had us switch seats so we'd look like a whole new audience.
While he is inadvertently playing a song that describes his whole campaign, we doubt that 'Panic Switch' really sends the message he intends.
We're going to take a short break and when we come back we're going to switch from Mars, Jupiter - where you want to go?
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