…sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence of its member states,” but also to “promote democratic principles and institutions, popular participation, and good governance” (African Union 2002). Today, the African Union is…

…and unrealistic unawareness of the threats nations face today. For many in the intelligence world today, hacking into computers and network infrastructures worldwide is, quite simply, an extension of the…

…modern archives seem somehow quaint and controllable by comparison to those of today. Today it sometimes seems that collecting everything is just what we do. Why not log it? Why…

…previously greeted citizens’ arrival at this venue of national and sporting spectacle. Today both he and a state that once seemed omnipresent are sidelined, their importance mediated by a company…

…the world who have diabetes. Fig. 2. Diabetes mortality. World Health Organization 2014. Used with permission. Today, personal blood glucose meters are widely considered best practice for optimal diabetes management….

…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…

…Hypercard in the 1980s). While the group develops such operating systems, it engages in a process of writing and rewriting code, as well as manifestos, lots of talking, even more…

…region. But if the region’s apple and pear orchards stand for healthy sweetness, then what does the sugar beet and its refined sugar stand for today? Sugar has become suspect…

…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…

…the 50,000 square feet of average stores today, the first supermarkets measured roughly 5,000 to 10,000 square feet. And while the contemporary supermarket experience typically begins in the produce department…

…of one official investigation, Eugene Spafford, pointed out, the code contained no commands that would harm a computer on which it ran, only commands intended to exploit vulnerabilities that allowed…

…hackerly and Open Source approach to biological construction [is] one that trades on the equation of DNA to source code and then posits that such code must be editable and…

…and mainstream news organizations subsequently reporting on the hack and commenting on the ensuing scandal.[4] The cache was the subject of an annotated, color-coded report published by the Lavoisier Group,…

…to numerous rich, though unruly, collections of language data. Many of these, the Boas Collection not least of all, are undergoing rapid digitization today. World War II put the brakes…

…did it again. But the level of knowledge among gynecologists stayed very low as they felt they were not concerned. Even today, some clinicians claim they have “never met a…

…H5N1 strain of influenza, the Indonesian government complained that virus samples taken from Indonesian patients and sent to WHO surveillance laboratories were subsequently given, without Indonesia’s permission, to for-profit vaccine…

…serves the poor in Bangladesh (Grameen Bank, the 2006 Nobel co-winner), he also crafted a global vision for funding entrepreneurs and tirelessly promoted it for three decades. Muhammad Yunus at…

…code, HR documents, and other files Decepticons 2017 Emmanuel Macron campaign staff emails Unknown 2017 Table 1: Public Interest Leaks There are likely cases—and I know of one—whereby a hacker…

…(Drew and Shane 2013). The founders of the CEH credential quickly distanced themselves from Snowden’s actions, noting that CEHs were required to follow a code of ethics, and that only…

…other words, there are no more secrets.” He will bring down every rotten institution, expose every lie, open government to the governed. “As of today, whatever you want to know,…

…moral energy, as well as the financial and organizational resources, being devoted to inventing and disseminating such micro-endeavors today. It asks: What does the proliferation of such small devices tell…

In the twentieth century, governments around the world assumed a central role in building, managing, and regulating infrastructures that produced public goods in the public interest. Today, however, the status…

Mumbai’s public water network has long distributed water, difference, and inequality in the city. The city’s hydraulic infrastructure, incrementally extended in the last 150 years, is today the sixth largest…

…all, there is no sense today that the UK’s public infrastructure should necessarily be publicly owned or directly controlled by the state. On the contrary, the National Infrastructure Delivery Plan…

…quintessential marks of the hacktivist today. Velocity and volume combine powerfully and call to mind Paul Virilio’s (1977) writings on the impact of technologically hastened politics. His term “dromology” refers…

…can and powered by wax or animal dung burned underneath it, which was distributed by UNESCO in India and Indonesia. The tin-can radio can be seen as an early humanitarian…

…build, Samuel would go around and around with the contractors, who’d want access to all his source code without letting him see any of theirs. It made sense for them…