Sentence examples for infrastructures from inspiring English sources

Occupy Sandy's mutual aid connected the hurricane to a critique of capitalism for failing to provide infrastructures adequate to the needs of an urban population in a changing climate.

The evidence before us strongly suggests that investment in the unglamorous technologies, frameworks and infrastructures that are already known to underwrite citizen participation would result in better outcomes for tens of millions of ordinary Indians – and would shoulder the state with far-less onerous a financial burden – than investment in the high-tech chimeras of centralised control.

It is one thing, after all, to reinforce the basic infrastructures that undergird the quality of urban life everywhere; quite another to propose saddling India's cities with expensive, untested technology at a time when reliable access to electricity, clean drinking water or safe sanitary facilities remain beyond reach for too many.

But it's clear that urban mobility badly needs to be rethought for an age of commuters every bit as networked as the vehicles and infrastructures on which they rely, but who retain expectations of personal mobility entrained by a century of private car ownership.

Whether in water, power, transport or buildings, all are trying to turn their dumb infrastructures into something more like a central nervous system.

That makes them pioneers of the convergence of the physical and the digital world.Putting sensors and actuators (devices to control a mechanism) into physical infrastructures is not exactly new.

They can save money by merging network infrastructures and doing away with separate fixed and mobile divisions.

When it has struck on this scale, the challenges that remain after that will still be huge; whole public-health infrastructures will need rebuilding.

"The next step is to make those devices aware of how humans work and to get them to adapt to their habits".If there is one part of the world where personal technology is on its way towards becoming ubiquitous it is Asia, where several richer countries have created impressive infrastructures on which all sorts of personal technologies can work.

Today, companies need to maintain four separate communications infrastructures.

Israel, argued the prime minister, had dismantled all its settlements in Gaza, but the Palestinians had failed to dismantle "terror infrastructures" as required under earlier agreements and had let the violent Islamists of Hamas take Gaza over.