Ashes as environmental test
The consequences of the islandic volcanic eruptions will be enormous for a long time and we are horribly reminded of the fragility of our infrastructure, so will built up and so abrubtly crashed. Within a few hours the Island volcano has managed to do what neither governments, climat activists nor anybody else has done so far – to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases caused by the human being.
According to facts the volcano does not emit any bigger amounts of CO2 itself. Probably it will even chill down the so far too high global temperature. Though how will the damage from toxic emissions effect on humans and nature? Positive reactions are seen on the usage of video meetings instead of flying to each other on physical meetings.
Other tecnical innovations will prosper. So even if volcano eruptions are not typical examples, this one has clearly started product and service development towards virtual meetings.