Bangladeshis are, like the poles, still waiting for their electricity.They are also awaiting a working democracy to tackle some daunting challenges: ensuring adequate food supplies, dealing with climate change and forestalling terrorism.
First, he says the Lowline team of three, plus hundreds of volunteers, must tackle some technical challenges: exactly how to channel the natural sunlight from the collectors to the park below, using the latest optics.
The recent development of electrostatic writing (electrowriting) with molten jets provides an opportunity to tackle some significant challenges within tissue engineering.
The House and Senate are going to tackle some legislative challenges critically important to the middle class (SCHIP, perhaps a national infrastructure bank, even - and this involves less spending - a credit cardholders' bill of rights).
Even "the awesome power of yeast genetics" is not sufficiently powerful to tackle some experimental challenges.
The Global Fund does however have power to tackle some governance challenges in countries, at least where it relates to its own work.
Robots could help tackle some of the challenges.
However, these economies — and in particular their government leaders — must also tackle some very big challenges if they are to compete successfully in the years ahead.
Meanwhile, for McGinley, the collaboration has offered a fun excuse to conduct research on odor dispersal, as well as the chance to tackle some of the challenges that have stopped smell from being an easily deliverable media format.
While it's tempting to say Facebook's resources should accelerate plans for the Rift's proper launch, it could work the other way: Oculus VR might use those resources to hire in a bunch more engineers and tackle some of the challenges it hadn't felt able to take on before.
