…continued growth of the human population. 1799: The first significant ice shipment in the United States is cut on the cobblestones of New York City’s Canal Street before leaving for…

…telecom company) to provide the National Security Agency (NSA) with information on all telephone calls in its systems within the United States and between the United States and other countries….

…(and bads) might be assessed. This basic articulation of public infrastructure was not confined to Europe and the United States. Similar ensembles of experts, governmental mechanisms, and forms of collectivity…

…we briefly describe how, from the mid-1950s to early-1960s, experts and officials charged with preparing for nuclear catastrophe in the United States sought to manage “the fundamentals of life on…

…could have been thwarted. In short, OPM was a sitting duck. “A LinkedIn for Spies” In July 2015, the news got even worse for Washington. United Airlines revealed that it…

…because “[i]n the digital age, the volume of information that can be disclosed without authorization is much greater” (United Kingdom Law Commission 2017). Media organizations, too, have adopted this metric….

…the mail, and we pay it. What the bill doesn’t reflect is the tremendous change in electricity infrastructure in the twenty-first century. Today, more and more electricity in the United…

…caste differentiation” (Narayan-Parker and Srinivasan 1994). The Participatory Development Toolkit, created by Deepa Narayan, Lyra Srinivasan and others, funded by the World Bank and the United Nations Develop- ment Program,…

…to the terms of the 1903 canal treaty, the United States had authority over the water drained by the 1,300-square-mile Chagres River basin, which extended deep into Panamanian territory (see…

…fish in the continental United States by volume. Until recently, this massive operation and its products were almost entirely unregulated, despite a substantial ecological impact. The menhaden population has declined…

…in comparison with about 2% spent by the United States (Zhang and Barnett 2014). This investment is reflected in the massive and seemingly endless major infrastructural projects that embody Chinese…

…mission of the Strategic Vulnerability Branch (SVB). As Lowe put it, SVB sought to “determine the strategic vulnerability to attack of all the countries of the world including the United…

…share similar goals, they have unique cultures. These institutional cultures—despite being united under the rubric of global health—remain distinct. Experts from different national agencies, various NGOs, and WHO all rely…

…professionals and the intuitions of non-professionals. Within intelligence and defense circles of the United States and its close allies, peacetime hacking into computers with the primary purpose of stealing information…

…Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sponsors conferences of its grantees in the academic community under the rubric of “Science and Technology for Intelligent Resilience” (link/). Resilience is a broad concept…

…the race and class divides that characterize the United Arab Emirates. In the imagined future of high technology, Abu Dhabi remained a liberal space for Western white businessmen, and a…

…reflected in the statistic that more people in the world today have access to a mobile phone than a safe and clean toilet (United Nations 2013). As such, the toilet…

…the ground. One such effort is under way at the MIT Little Devices Lab (http://littledevices.mit.edu/), where I visited to learn more about work on “open design” by Jose Gomez-Marquez and…

Innovation by Design In 2012, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) launched its Innovation Hub (i-Hub). It thereby followed a trend among development actors who see innovation, broadly…

…threat. Flyger and Schein had first proposed capturing and tagging polar bears a year earlier, when biologists from the United States, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and the Soviet Union met in…

…It” campaign (http://justlabelit.org/), for instance, a coalition of several hundred nongovernmental organizations, concentrates its efforts on petitioning the US Food and Drug Administration and Congress in favor of the mandatory…

…If we take 1992—the year the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted—as a reasonable starting point when ordinary people paying a modicum of attention to public affairs…

…that climate change is a high-stakes play advanced far beyond official United Nations discourse. Their anticipation itself, more than biophysical changes per se, is the most immediate and least predictable…

…let them do that. We are rebelling to prevent their tentacles from reaching our community. The people are united, because you know, the people united cannot be defeated. Pedro’s rebellion…

…losses in the United States—estimated at $71.4 billion—were most severe in the New York metropolitan area, with its high concentration of vulnerable residences, globally significant businesses, and critical infrastructure (U.S….