All was now interconnected, contingent, and intricate".
Since construction of these regional airports in 1968, the road infrastructure has been considerably improved in the region.5 Connections to the main roads have been improved and many towns which originally were hard to reach by private car are now interconnected by bridges and tunnels.
Indeed the forces of globalization with modern telecommunications have shrunk the world to the point that all pieces are now interconnected.
This data is then fed to government agencies, which are now interconnected -- the CIA to the FBI, the FBI to local police -- a relationship which will make a transition to martial law that much easier.
The problem was that the Web is now so interconnected that a cyberattack on, unexpected traffic to or even a minor error on one Web site can send a ripple affect across the Internet that can slow down thousands if not millions of other sites.
Hong Kong faces little direct exposure to potential defaults on European government bonds, Tsang added, but the global financial system is now so interconnected that this confers no protection.
Mr. Paulson, formerly of Goldman Sachs, can propose a radical plan to regulate the financial industry in the United States, as he did this week, but it doesn't address the larger problem: we're now so interconnected with the markets abroad, whether it be Japan or even Brazil, that whatever we do on our own is almost beside the point.
It is now widely recognized that interconnected microbial communities drive matter and energy transformations in natural and engineered ecosystems (Falkowski et al., 2008), while also contributing to health and disease states in multicellular hosts (Clemente et al., 2012).
Modular composition of components through a shared interconnect is now becoming the standard, rather than the exotic.
