…scratch (or “flex”) cards that people buy to top up their mobile phone airtime balances (Fig. 6). Matthew was one of the first to teach himself how to repair phones;…

…of phone phreakers threatened with arrest in 1962: a handful.5 Number of phone phreakers threatened with arrest in 1962 who went on to become any Ivy League professor and famous…

…sought to serve. He explained to representatives that banks “refuse to open their doors to the poor people who cannot provide collateral” and that “giving money to the poor is…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…who has tried to log into a website only to be challenged with a distorted image of text. Website developers use those images, called CAPTCHAs, to discriminate real people trying…

…cooks and children to burn risks. Some models are so complex that villagers cannot fix them without specialized tools, resources, and knowledge. Most are too expensive for villagers to buy;…

…all this freedom came with serious responsibility: every two months they had to go to a “Compstat meeting” to give an accounting before a mixed assembly sometimes including the mayor…

…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…

…the international tobacco control field. To conclude, I want to reflect on how this story relates to wider historical accounts about the proliferation of micro-technologies within international development and humanitarian…

…story selected with other stories that could be told, it does not aspire to totality. It is not a proxy for something else. Whereas the speaker aspires to create a…

…as mere tools. They are “unfree partners, whose differences and similarities to human beings, to one another, and to other organisms are crucial to the work of the lab” (Haraway…

…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…

…engaging with product and 16 just passing through without stopping…. Of the 22 who stop, 17 convert into buyers, while five leave without buying, which [Rajeev Sharma, Chief Executive Officer…

…their potential epigenetic harms. However, as biomedical research looks increasingly to experimentally trace the developmental and epigenetic effects of environmental exposures, from nutrition to stress to pollution to exercise to…

…She pointed to “a fundamental problem with our water system: a dogmatic adherence to a rigid set of operating criteria that continues to handcuff our ability to rebuild our reserves”…

…all prior outbreaks had been limited to small geographical areas and to relatively low numbers of cases (see Lakoff, this issue). According to the 1989 scenario, the catastrophic outcome was…

…Along with colleagues, he developed a number of research projects focused on farmed wild birds: farm surveys to count the number of birds, investigations of how birds were marketed, and…

…are asked to think forward into the future, to evaluate their lives in the round, to rank their anxiety against their contentment. Seen from another angle, however, simplicity is a…

…cause mechanical generators to operate slightly out of synchronization with the rest of the grid, creating a malfunction leading to explosion and fire.[1] The concern with infrastructural vulnerability has also…

…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…

…of inanimate objects to animate, to act, to produce effects dramatic and subtle.” Thing-power does not necessarily rely on cultural significance but on the model’s material body. The common wisdom…

…We start with physical cash to understand how this ledger, the blockchain, works, because they share a common problem, one that’s far more challenging to address with digital cash: making…