According to Mark Tanzer, chief executive at the UK travel trade association ABTA, mainstream tourism is still in "take-off mode" when it comes to managing its social and environmental impacts.
Looking at Google's hardware efforts in the wake of the Chromebook Pixel announcement last week, it does seem that the company is still in a largely experimental mode when it comes to fielding its own devices.
The ball communicates in every language, you get to see the locals in a rare state of openness and passion, and you meet the culture in its most convivial and gregarious mode, when it is most ready to include an outsider in its rites (so long as he's wearing the right colours).
On Thursday, the rover put itself in "safe mode," when it discovered the memory in its computer had malfunctioned.
The sensor can then turn into sleep mode when it determines that barrier coverage can be provided by its neighbors.
The aircraft's wheels and other instruments were in landing mode when it crashed.
"The body goes into a repair-and-recover mode when it no longer has the work of storing the food being consumed," he said.
American medicine is already in a crisis mode when it comes to geriatric care, and the problem will only become worse unless new approaches are found, experts say.
