Technology has the potential to transform our home life, but only if it addresses the needs of its users.
The approach has been adopted in several Canadian provinces, and Australia runs a continent-sized program to update its primary care doctors (though I don't know if it addresses jellyfish injuries).
"If it addresses something they're angry about, like executive compensation, fine.
President Obama has vowed to veto the tax cut legislation if it addresses Keystone.
But that can only be part of the solution if it addresses the specific challenges that affect the north.
To boot, selling a book – especially if it addresses anything or anyone on the fringes – these days is no mean feat.
This reflects the views, if not the policy prescriptions, of the Blue Labour thinkers, such as the academic and peer Maurice Glasman, who believe that the party can only ever hope to win back traditional working-class supporters if it addresses deep-seated fears on sensitive matters such as immigration.
There is a real feeling that change is in the air, but the new portfolio of ACE-funded theatre organisations will only serve the wider needs of the theatre ecology and audiences if it addresses the often quite irrational and inequitable levels of funding of different organisations in different parts of the country that have built up over many years, and been allowed to flourish for too long.
If it addresses an entirely new market (like e-paper) then it would be much longer.
But Boston can reach even higher, and get there faster, if it addresses the four factors outlined here.
Transparency can be one game changer, especially if it addresses the channels of influence through which policy becomes "privatized".
