There was a power vacuum in Kabul, a brief moment when one set of rulers fled and the next had not yet taken over.
But at a time when Cabrini Green and the rest of the city's high-rise public housing developments are coming down, and when whatever will come next is not yet complete, a farmer has stepped in with his own dream.
The company's next device, not yet unveiled but teased by founder Ronald Ro, will hook Awair into traditionally 'dumb' air quality products to automate the entire process.
Details on pricing and what's planned next are not yet available, but companies working in the social enterprise space – including Jive, Microsoft-acquired Yammer, and Salesforce, are being put on notice.
Over the years, massive awareness campaigns launched with catchy slogans advising people to have fewer children - like "Agla bachcha abhi nahin, Teen ke baad kabhi nahin (The next child not yet, And after three - never)" or "Hum do, hamare do (We two, our two)" and finally "One is fun" - have helped.
What happens next is not yet clear.
Fresh-faced and lean, looking boyish yet having just turned 21, seemingly unfazed in the English league or the Champions League, he looks like the next Kaká if not yet the next Zico.
Plans for 2014-16 will be determined over the next 12 months, but formal discussions on the criteria for grants to cathedrals for the next triennium have not yet been opened.
England's passage to Brazil for the finals next year is not yet assured.
"It's a tough match and our passage to the next round is not yet assured.
