christensen: we're going to have to adapt. it's going to take that creativity and energy and capital. the question of how do we balance that economic development, the investment in protecting it, with the needs of people and the environment is one that, you know, we're going to find ourselves asking over and over again here in the bay area and around the world. and now for something completely different. [laughter] as we all know, we are living in extremely unstable times. institutions, whose stability we took for granted, for better or worse, suddenly seem shaky. long established norms are breaking down, the global geo-political situation seems increasingly chaotic and dangerous, people in positions of power behave in hitherto unthinkable ways, etc. as a result, the news cycle keeps us in a constant hyper-excited state, and our attention lurches from crisis over here, to a new shocking wrinkle in this scandal over there,