…on mysterious food rations. A Kroger supermarket at Kenwood Plaza, Cincinnati tests prototype bar code scanners in July 1972. 1974: Counting Codes: The first bar code scanner is installed in…

…new relationships, new capacities, or re-arrange existing relationships of knowledge and power. On the other hand, there are the reassuringly familiar collectivities—like “the people” or “the public” or “the community.”…

…communication with each other, are at a conceptual stage, yet they herald a new era that expands the domain of economic calculation and communication. The new vision for electricity is…

In 1994, Rudolph Giuliani was elected Mayor of New York following a campaign centered entirely on the problem of public safety. He promised New Yorkers that he would restore the…

…show this property tend to be selected as successful. Every two years or so, the overall process results in a new operating system, which then allows a whole new generation…

…grounds for their authority, reconceiving the object of development—poverty—by forging new metrics of aid success, by developing new techniques for its measurement, and by adopting new devices amenable to this…

…is one such attempt to fill this void that has only begun to emerge since the turn of the new millennium. But this new vision of African-owned development also opens…

…news cycles of other states, to playing havoc with electric grids. One computer or a thousand, the size of a hack doesn’t matter: scale doesn’t transform espionage into warfare. Intent…

…neglected consequences of infrastructure development: the destruction of ecological systems, whether on a local or a global scale; the risk of catastrophic accidents or disruptions; and new patterns of exclusion…

…IBM and promoted by Digital On-Ramps’ steering committee and the mayor were not met: the bombastic hype of app-based workforce education as a vehicle for economic promotion was the most…

…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….

…contractual obligations and new forms of activism and interest articulation.[3] Both those facing displacement and those buying into new housing estates are learning new forms of contestation and protest, and…

…But Modi, victorious, would go on to embrace Aadhaar with a vengeance. News accounts and popular stories began to circulate about the new PM’s panoptic ability to know what was…

…context of blood transfusion. The humble setting of Mourant’s clearing house belied its lofty ambitions. Announcing the new Centre, the U.S. magazine Science News-Letter claimed that blood-group data would offer…

…access to air travel which facilitated the collection and circulation of blood samples; new computing technology for handling large amounts of data; and the creation of new international organizations, such…

…hacks and document leaks. After reminding him it was illegal to seek hacking aid of any sort, I told him that, as far as I knew, the hackers themselves had…

…electricity. On April 25, 2015, the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal prompted new questions about the relationship between energy security, environmental risk, and community resilience. Amid the diverse futures and…

…share of modern education.” Figure 2. Such is the universalized citizen-subject of Pyidawtha developmentalism, a “new man” for a new era. Yet beyond the public rhetoric of figures like U…

…medical supply company known as Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dickson, the story goes, had an accident-prone young wife named Josephine. Concerned about her tendency to acquire…

The mobile phone revolution in Papua New Guinea (PNG) began in July 2007 when Irish billionaire Denis O’Brien’s company Digicel, in response to the government’s liberalization of the tele-communications sector,…

…seen espionage and political espionage is not something new. The only thing that’s new here is the leaking of the data that was stolen rather than, let’s say, the covert…

…journalism” has been used to explain the context in which new formats of news making, new identities, and new professional boundaries have been set. Data journalism is a good example…

…governing strategy has facilitated the recognition of new collective kinds: new groups of languages can now be compared, and therefore defined; new communities of researchers can interact and share their…

…their babies, parceled in their woven string bags, on their heads. In 2004, when I visited Begasin Health Centre in Usino Bundi district, Papua New Guinea, diagnosis at a rural…

…We should be able to transact this “cash” without creating new money objects or new copies of existing money objects. The Bitcoin blockchain’s answer to this seemingly intractable problem of…

…into an IBM card using a coding system. “The combination of the maps and the codes,” Lowe summarized, “is what constitutes the Bombing Encyclopedia” (1946:13). Using it, an analyst could…

…Odebrecht. No longer a project of national territorial integration, the new highway promised international connectivity not just for terrestrial movements, but via all the other infrastructures that the new road…

…connectivity. Different from the nation-state, Europe is lacking clearly defined territorial boundaries and a contiguous state space. Its political unity is always newly at stake, subject to experimentation and new…

…this earth” by producing a new kind of knowledge that focused on risks to the critical systems that underpinned collective life. The mission articulated by McDermott was the outcome of…