Once a fire strikes the urban fringe it may morph into an urban conflagration, spreading from structure to structure, as happened in Santa Rosa, California, last fall.
As your work is forming, you'll notice that it may morph into an object you didn't otherwise expect.
That zero-interest period offered in big type on the card application may morph into a high-interest loan before you know it, and with that, the likelihood increases exponentially that any discount you received for signing up will be lost to interest payments.
As with any emerging technology, current applications will evolve as learning occurs and may morph into something quite different.
European politics has focused so far on providing public credit to the crisis countries at near-zero interest rates, which eventually may morph into transfers.
And even in newer condos, as the property changes hands over the years, small inflations may morph into architectural tall tales.
Dambuster has said that it is aware of the game's shortcomings, and is working hard to fix them, so somewhere down the line, this may morph into a highly satisfying open-world first-person shooter.
If the Russian government continues to assert itself with Yukos, then loans for shares may morph into shares for taxes, giving the Russian government a new foothold in the economy.
If these rules oblige the less well-off to migrate en masse to less salubrious areas, the mixed communities of London and other British cities, in which social classes rub along together, may morph into the sort of monocultural enclaves more typical of stratified places such as Paris.
In its view, this means that the "hub-and-spoke" system of alliances, with America at the centre, which has defined regional security since the start of the cold war, may morph into what Mr Nagashima calls "a network among the spokes".
These pass creation companies may seem like minor news now, but Apple's Passbook is setting the stage for what one day may morph into a full-fledged mobile wallet.
