The perception that technology interventions will bring financial or tangible hand-outs can lead to disappointment and even hostility from potential beneficiaries when these expectations are not met.
"The breadth of this subject is amazing – it offers a tangible, first-hand view into the values and ideas of other people, past and present.
"The Israeli government will face its voters without any tangible achievement in hand to show," Nahum Barnea, a columnist for the newspaper Yediot Aharonot, wrote Tuesday.
If it falls, the administration will have a tangible victory in hand that might allay concerns in Europe and elsewhere about the bombing strategy.
For example, to create a resume, adding the content of work history, wordsmithing and proofreading the text, then ensuring proper formatting will eventually result in a finished tangible resume in hand.
"People want something tangible in their hands as a safeguard," she says.
Martha Stewart knows what makes people happy: "The self-gratification that they have created something tangible with their hands".
The nervous tension in the room seemed tangible as students handed in their homework, a detailed list of their personal goals for the semester: talk to a stranger, go to professors' office hours, sound more confident on the phone, offer three opinions in class, greet an authority figure, learn to enter conversations.
He observes that people often have the idea that a legacy is something tangible to be handed down to children.
Facts are tangible and near at hand.
The super-rich of high-tech, on the other hand, create tangible things that make our lives easier, and this we can respect.
