From a fridge being able to let you know it's run out of milk and reorder it online, to a room light that knows when it's getting dark or when your car is turning into your home street, but that on Tuesday you visit the neighbour next door first for on average 30 minutes so it will save switching on till then, this is the brave new world of the Internet of Things.
General Prayuth does not look like a strongman to reorder Thai politics and society.
It would tackle the causes of Islamic terrorism.Strong, but vulnerableThe doctrine drew on two contradictory beliefs: that America was mighty enough to reorder the world and that it was vulnerable to still worse attacks.
"Feminist consciousness is consciousness of victimisation," argued Sandra Bartky, an influential theorist.For difference feminists, the solution to women's inferior status is to reorder society away from patriarchy and towards "female values".
Maintaining the right balance of "strategic ambiguity" on this is difficult but that is apparently what Mr Bush, albeit clumsily, is trying to do.Elsewhere, Mr Bush made no secret during the campaign of his desire to reorder American priorities.
America found itself wanting to reorder the world a world that, in some respects, proved surprisingly receptive to that aim.Once in a lifetimeNobody was quicker to respond, or more decisive in pushing through policy change, than Russia's president, Vladimir Putin.
But almost everything that can usefully transmit data will eventually be able to do so, including refrigerators that automatically reorder what has been taken out of them and car keys that tell the Internet (and you) where you left them.Some devices may use an operating system from Microsoft, but the majority will not.
At least neither he nor his parliamentarians face elections this year, though there will be local polls.In one striking proposal, Mr Ma said Taiwan's army would reorder its priorities towards handling big disasters.
According to Dr Wade, who is now at the University of Sydney, "war and conquest, with the horse as a means of transport, meant the genetics were spread widely".As well as developing new centromeres, chromosomes also reorder their genes during the course of evolution.
But a book of fewer than 300 pages that proposes to reorder so much of both the American system and the wider world is bound to skimp on detail.
But David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter who is now at the American Enterprise Institute, argues that the significant point about the Bush doctrine is not its short-term contradictions but its long-term potential to reorder America's foreign policy.
