High-tech goes into action in disaster zone - Science - MSNBC.com

High-tech goes into action in disaster zone - Science - MSNBC.com: "The problems with the response to Katrina's devastation show that the technologies related to disaster relief — ranging from communications to rapid-response transportation to search-and-rescue techniques — are sorely in need of an upgrade, said Lois Clark McCoy of the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue.

'It does no good to shoot this group of sitting ducks and put in a new batch of sitting ducks,' McCoy said, referring to the political finger-pointing already well under way. 'The problem is not the people, the problem is the system. We have to redesign the system for catastrophic events.'"