…to the City. Mumbai’s water network is structured to distribute water from large dams via trunk mains through secondary transmission lines to service lines. The reticulate form of the network…

…case Winnie needs to make a quick phone call during the day (100 toea = 1 kina). (On-net calls from one Digicel phone to another are billed at 79 toea…

…Cities Challenge initiatives took the potential of ICT infrastructure to connect city to citizen in original, often untested ways. These initiatives proposed harnessing ICT’s potential to address a “matter of…

…a sense of the eco-city’s ambitions. Masdar City is a “futuristic” eco-city designed by the London­-based architecture office Foster + Partners to rely entirely on renewable energies. It was launched…

…2 Number of times Sony was pwned in 2011: 21 3 Cost to Sony of 2011 PlayStation Hack: $171M 4 Number of people arrested for the 2011 Playstation hack: Number…

…hackers, and private detectives, dumpster diving has proliferated for all types of reasons. We used to rely on the telephone book to share public information; today, things like phone numbers…

…and Sewerage Department as the city’s water supplier, and to instead source cheaper water through a newly constructed pipeline into Lake Huron. Yet until that pipeline came on line in…

…eye to a climate-changed future. A little more than a month after Sandy’s landfall, Michael Bloomberg, then mayor of New York City, proclaimed, “We can’t just rebuild to what was…

…too little. They are vulnerable to the charge of being too limited as well as the charge of being too expansive. They fail to tackle fundamental global injustices, but they…

…compiled in order to meet three objectives at once: first, to produce facts; second, to act upon and transform these facts; third, to create a spectacle around them. It’s not…

…to behave that way. If he failed to help them get their code into Huawei’s fleet, he’d have to answer to governments around the world. If they failed to help…

…becoming a danger to factory SCADA systems in “friendly” countries, and also to prevent it from being repurposed by unfriendly ones. Stuxnet took years to plan, millions of dollars in…

…by and through infrastructure as a modern project. About 43% of China’s total investment goes towards infrastructure, or roughly $2.3 trillion. This amounts to 14% of gross domestic product (GDP),…

…with a mobile phone and a bicycle to facilitate their movement within the village as they travel to the local primary health care center (PHC). The cell phone has prerecorded…

…playfulness. Whereas hackers break or build as a means to get to a specific ends (we “break” something to get into “somewhere”), software developers claim that they create just to…

…the toilet is an unsuitable place to visit, use, let alone to hang around (Thieme 2010). IkoToilets are intended to provide a significant step-change in the quality of public toilets…

…be turned into “development devices” amenable to abstraction and adaptation to other times and places? Could and should consumer and class-based desires be used to guide the making and marketing…

…that correlates, according to both the United Nations and doctors in the region, to their health. The scales seem to be failing: most obviously, many are broken or difficult to…

…blooming across the skyline. And as wind parks have proliferated in number, so too have the towers themselves grown in size, with 3-megawatt turbines topping 105 meters (32 stories) and…

…as highways, telecommunications systems, electricity generation and distribution, systems for water control, and sewage systems were planned for—and valued in relation to—a public understood to be homogenous and largely passive….

…in America. By 1909 the number would climb to 2000 plants producing over 15 million tons of ice. 1885: Colonel John Pemberton registers his coca wine nerve tonic, the non-alcoholic…

…managers attempted to profit from the proclivities of this touch-point collective by carving out a physical space for its members and formally inviting them to gather there—not to socialize, but…

What is the distinction between sensors and sentinels? Both have the capacity to sense danger, but while the sensor translates potential threats into numbers, the sentinel sends out early warning…

…million people that live in the urban sprawl that stretches from Panama City (the nation’s booming capital and canal’s Pacific terminus) to Colón (a neglected city by the Caribbean terminus)….

…it offered a practical solution to the problem of how to monitor a residual and highly distributed vector-population. To understand the method’s empirical capacity, I would like to suspend the…

…WHO Ebola Vaccine Consultation back in September. A vaccine has the unique capacity to act as bulwark against the unforeseen. Indeed, while the industry has capacity to produce vaccines in…

…to be called up: Number 258.   Welcome to Bitcoin. Or, rather, welcome to the “blockchain,” the system that underlies Bitcoin. Like Borges’s lottery (that most wasteful of civic activities)…