…12,000 franc prize in 1809, across the channel the British merchant Peter Durand was packing the approach into a more familiar form. Setting sail with boiled meats and soups sealed…

…the complex thicket of technology and society. Take for example the phenomenon known as “Big Data” and the miraculous new forms of problem-solving, knowledge creation and economic productivity it promises….

…citizens. For most of the twentieth century, economists and regulators considered electricity unsuited for competition (see Özden-Schilling [2015] for the origins of electricity’s “natural monopoly” status). Large, vertically integrated companies…

…beyond that, the time elected officials require for communication. Here, legend and fact overlap; New York is not only safe, but is known for being safe. Conclusion For the last…

…is for many other engineers, at best a word for tentative work (as in: “This is just a hack”) or for using technologies for other purposes than those originally intended…

…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…

…to undergo dramatic—and painful—change. In a remarkable draft “Road Map for National Security” from 2000, a centrist bipartisan group argued, “in the new era, sharp distinctions between ‘foreign’ and ‘domestic’…

…way of understanding—and providing for—the African public. Bonds suggest a potentially new role for private ownership in African public infrastructure and public finance. Yet this is not the only or…

…the 1930s), cost-benefit analyses have been criticized on various fronts: for their insensitivity to distributional issues; for the status of the expert knowledge that goes into constituting them; for their…

…mayor noted that, by his office’s calculus, 600,000 city residents were unqualified for jobs in the twenty-first century information and innovation-focused economy (Nutter 2012a, 2012b). As a result, residents first…

…proposal also addressed the RBD directive to establish new standards of participatory design for infrastructure projects and “provide collateral benefits for communities” (Task Force 2013:11). The BIG U, designers argued,…

…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…

…the primary identity archive for the new e-governance seemed less important, particularly given its questionable legal future, than did its formal apparatus: biometrics, ever more universal scanners, and some kind…

…made possible its transfer between bodies. When the war ended, increasing demand for blood forced hospitals to develop strategies for recruiting and managing donors. In some places, hospitals and private…

…that new uses for old blood have been accompanied by new forms of exclusion or injury. In other words, though scientists initially understood this blood to be frozen, they have…

…infiltrated systems for all sorts of reasons—for fun, learning, and showmanship—and in the process swiped data and documents but never released them. For decades, hackers have also acquired and published…

…only for sustaining long-distance kin relations but also for experimenting with self-development. The capacity to engage in novel forms of intimacy with strangers and in private forms of communications with…

…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…

…situations demand new magic.” (Evans-Pritchard 1937: 513)   The origin of the humble Band-Aid offers enticing material for corporate legend. In 1920, Earle Dickson was a cotton buyer for the…

…project site prevented them from doing so again. They had to formulate a new energy strategy. For more than two years, the Langtangpa relied on solar units for electricity (mostly…

…Is Stuxnet [2010] a case of such a threshold, or the DNC [Democratic National Committee] hack? Since you’ve been doing this for a long time, maybe you have a particular…

…a closet and forgotten for more than 10 years. Only in 2001 did these notecards come to the attention of the broader research community. Since that time, linguists and data…

…more than 138,000 congenital syphilis cases and more than 148,000 stillbirths annually. A test that could be performed with no laboratory infrastructure could prevent more than 201,000 congenital syphilis cases…

…the form of new records of ownership that didn’t exist before. In other words, what makes new money in this system—what the money is, in a literal sense, made of—is…

…river valley at Inambari to create a huge hydroelectric power plant. The planned hydroelectric project was expected to flood 46,000 hectares (nearly 114,000 acres) of forest and would notably also…

On February 25, 2015, the EU acquired a new meaning: Since then this acronym not only stands for the European Union, but also for the Energy Union. Jean-Claude Juncker, who…

…happen, and the recognition of their existence seems, day after day, to call for new solutions. As recent campaigns organized by NGOs demonstrate,[4] the metaphors have created impetus for new…

…airfields and military supply depots; the stockpile of strategic materials; and the United States population in 25,000 locations.”[4] Using the new technical possibilities of “electronic calculators” like the Univac computer…

…form was filled out that included: (1) codes for machine processing; (2) information identifying and locating the target; (3) information on the category of the target and its individual characteristics;…