These risks are of course still present, but a more pervasive danger is that states will simply collapse.
But the new technology produced a much more pervasive danger: that an artist's printed output would be so quickly and thoroughly copied and pirated that his work would be diluted and his good name undermined.
"The lasting effects of mental distraction pose a hidden and pervasive danger that would likely come as a surprise to most drivers," foundation President Peter Kissinger said.
They say these firms are substituting one exaggerated threat — the menace of online sex predators — with a far more pervasive danger from online marketers like junk food and toy companies that will rush to advertise to children if they are told revealing details about the users.
But a much more pervasive danger to journalism now exists through these omniscient spy programmes.
We still worry about that every time our kids step out the door to go to a party, but now we've got a new and more pervasive danger to worry about and it's the direct result of our technologically advanced times.
The occasional jaw-dropping award in a personal injury or class-action lawsuit creates, like the occasional terrorist attack, a salient sense of pervasive danger.
"The QAA, for those of us who have suffered under its tawdry posturing, is a cancer that gnaws at the core of knowledge, value and freedom in education; its carcinogenic growth is now perhaps the greatest pervasive danger to the function of a university as a surviving institution," he writes.
Haynes's nuanced feel for the pervasive dangers in a reputation-obsessed society blends with a transporting sense of period detail and atmosphere.
