Today, the quality of air and water, the movement of people and objects, the changes in weather, the road traffic, the production and consumption of energy, can be measured by sensors, and tracked and interconnected through networks in real time.
Today, when every nation is so immediately interconnected, we cannot turn a blind eye and assume that there will not be a cost for us if we do".
The world is interconnected as never before, says Robert Volterra, partner and principal of public international law firm Volterra Fietta.
Our personal data is being interconnected and processed in manners we couldn't have imagined 20 years ago.
Similarly, almost nobody saw that the problem with transistors was not the devices themselves, but the way they were interconnected.
The forklift operator the only one allowed into the lane under Israeli security rules sighs, bends down and begins shovelling shrimps and dirt back into the boxes.The problem is that everything is interconnected.
But the Nordic crime writers understand that the more interconnected the world is, the more people crave a sense of place the more distinctive and unusual the better.
Because things are so interconnected, largely thanks to technology, a problem in one part of the system can quickly lead to problems elsewhere.
Such co-operation illustrates a desire among NATO countries and their allies to design technologically compatible subsea networks that could be interconnected.
Because most big banks are too interconnected to fail, and could be brought down by a counterparty, the system is only as strong as its weakest member.
(Only a few defendants held high office, but the Supreme Court will try them all together, since the charges are interconnected).Such legal manoeuvring could push many of the crimes past Brazil's criminal-friendly statute of limitations.
