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But for every disaster we had, the marathon found ways to bring people together.
The lives of the elderly are widely recognized as constituting a disaster area of modern American society.
They're a disaster.
For every hacker that's trying to steal your identity there's one that's building a tool that will help you find your loved ones after a disaster or to monitor environmental quality after an oil spill.
Ninety-eight percent of this has nothing to do with natural disasters, and yet, people's charity, when they see a natural disaster, are wonderful.
And this is a mapping application for disaster response.
Sleep, actually, is something very dear to my heart, because my sleep is a disaster.
Somebody's going to get my college grades out, a that's going to be a disaster.
So the fraud is going to progress through the entire system, hyperinflate the bubble, produce a disaster.
As a final example, and perhaps my favorite example, is that in the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan, a woman reached out in one of our singing apps to try to get people to join in to sing with her on a version of "Lean on Me." Now, in these apps, there's this thing that allows any user to add their voice to an existing performance by any other user or group of users, so in some sense, she's created this kind of global ad hoc corral of strangers, and within weeks, thousands of people joined in on this, and you can kind of see people coming from all around the world and all these lines converging on the origin where the first rendition of the song was sung, and that's in Tokyo.
Governments are using it for border security or helping with disaster response after floods and fires and earthquakes.
I want a web which is such a powerful basis for innovation that when something nasty happens, some disaster strikes, that we can respond by building stuff to respond to it very quickly.
The first question is, how did the number of deaths per year from natural disaster, how did that change during the last century?
This is the best data from the disaster researchers, and it goes up and down, and it goes to the Second World War, and after that it starts to fall and it keeps falling and it's down to much less than half.
Hundreds of Cuban doctors volunteered for disaster response, but when they got there, they found a bigger disaster: whole communities with no healthcare, doors bolted shut on rural hospitals for lack of staff, and just too many babies dying before their first birthday.
Which is why putting criminal laws and police front and center in trying to control a dynamic global commodities market is a recipe for disaster.
Is it any surprise that our world, marching to the drumbeat of GDP, is teetering on the brink of environmental disaster and filled with anger and conflict?
Enters the courtyard and talks to the custodian, who tells him that there's been a disaster in the palazzo; nobody's TVs are working and there's a big soccer game coming up, and the crowd is getting a little restless and a little nervous.
This is not disaster tourism.
And 1,000 kilometers away from the safety of land, disaster strikes.
Imagine the rubble that you get after a natural disaster like an earthquake.
Robots, not just humans, will help us to brave the disaster zones to save the trapped and wounded.
When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war.
In just 70 years, we walked ourselves up to the edge of disaster.
If the initial responders can get in, save lives, mitigate whatever flooding danger there is, that means the other groups can get in to restore the water, the roads, the electricity, which means then the construction people, the insurance agents, all of them can get in to rebuild the houses, which then means you can restore the economy, and maybe even make it better and more resilient to the next disaster.
So my challenge to you: the next time you hear about a disaster, look for the robots.
Whenever there's a disaster, a team of experts come in and they try to figure out what went wrong, right?
The problem is that if you don't talk about it, you're heading for disaster.
Repeat that process for a million years and the average height will be a lot taller than the average height today, assuming there's no natural disaster that wipes out all the tall people.
There is an environmental mystery afoot, and it begins with a seemingly trivial detail that reveals a disaster of global proportions.
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