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At the beginning, it was a disaster.
I asked them to take the examples that we were seeing of the info-graphics that existed in a lot of mass media, and take a look at what were the interesting components of it, and produce one for themselves of a different man-made disaster from American history.
So contrary to what we heard a few months back about how 75 percent of that oil sort of magically disappeared and we didn't have to worry about it, this disaster is still unfolding.
And I think what it is is I don't think we have fully come to terms with the meaning of this disaster, with what it meant to witness a hole ripped in our world, with what it meant to watch the contents of the Earth gush forth on live TV, 24 hours a day, for months.
Can I tell you, airports are a disaster.
This doesn't mean that intervention around the world is a disaster.
Why do many people believe that India is still a growth disaster?
But look, it can't: AIDS, Iran-Contra, the Challenger disaster, Chernobyl.
And this is a standard operating procedure for much of the news video and the news pictures that you see, where a group of reporters will be trucked in, escorted to the site of a disaster, they'll produce their material, take their pictures, get their interviews, and then they'll be escorted out.
These video lectures were a disaster.
Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world where people have access to mobile smart devices.
Feynman went on to earn degrees at MIT, Princeton, he solved the Challenger disaster, he ended up winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for his Feynman diagrams, describing the movement of subatomic particles.
We were the first commercial fleet of airplanes to be cleared into the disaster impact zone.
We took pictures of interiors, disaster areas.
This is an environmental disaster writ large.
Like the time I was in Sichuan Province and I was singing for kids in relocation schools in the earthquake disaster zone.
But holding onto that structure we built around the daring, independence, self-sufficiency of each of those people has become a disaster.
Now, my obsession ended up driving me to create full-size prototypes in my own backyard — (Laughter) — and actually spending my own personal savings on everything from tooling to patents and a variety of other costs, but in the end I ended up with this modular housing system that can react to any situation or disaster.
The magician looked at me and said, "This is a disaster.
When the Fukushima disaster happened, a bunch of people in Japan, they realized that the information that the government was giving wasn't really open and really reliable, so they built this Geiger counter, plus Arduino, plus network interface.
Another aspect of this partnership is in disaster relief.
In each of these major disasters — the tsunami in 2004, 250,000 dead, the Kashmiri earthquake in Pakistan, 2005, 85,000 dead, the Haitian earthquake, about 300,000 dead, more recently the awful earthquake-tsunami combination which struck Japan and its nuclear industry — in all of these instances, we see partnerships between international actors, interagency, private-public working with security forces to respond to this kind of natural disaster.
Morgan O'Neill: So, on June 1, we weren't disaster experts, but on June 3, we started faking it.
And if some community member is in this organizing position in every area after every disaster, these tools should exist.
MO: So, we decided to build them: a recovery in a box, something that could be deployed after every disaster by any local organizer.
In the course of the past year, we've become experts in the field of community-powered disaster recovery.
Large aid organizations are exceptional at bringing massive resources to bear after a disaster, but they often fulfill very specific missions, and then they leave.
In a disaster, however, you start with all of the interest and none of the capacity.
FEMA and the state will pay 85 percent of the cost of a federally-declared disaster, leaving the town to pay the last 15 percent of the bill.
If we can get the right tools at the right time to the people who will inevitably step up and start putting their communities back together, we can create new standards in disaster recovery.
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