…high school. But at university, every student seemed to have not just a phone, but a smartphone that enabled use of the internet for their studies. Having a phone appeared…

…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…

…walk.” “Why didn’t you call?” “Flat battery. Flat battery in the car, too. Same as everyone. I plugged my phone in soon as I sat down, right, but I think…

…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…

…need for continually lower numbers means that these very numbers have become less meaty. On the one hand, not doing better than in the previous year means admitting failure. One…

…reaffirmed and strengthened the place of security in the heart of state activity. This also hybridized with a longstanding obsession with “the enemy within,” which has always formed one of…

…phone charger. It seems like a heartwarming example of philanthro-capitalism, good design, and humanitarian innovation (Scott-Smith 2016). What’s not to like? The IKEA refugee shelter. Photo: Mark E. Breeze For…

…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…

…she can produce the desired single number that can account for the value of assets across place (standardized by the unit of country) and time (standardized by the unit of…

…Réseau-DES lobbied and advocated for maternity leave for DES daughters for more than fifteen years. Their efforts were unsuccessful until 2010, a time when most DES daughters were nearing the…

…attention. The internet has morphed with us: once an unexplored space we wandered in solitude, it has become a marketplace for goods, the primary vehicle for communication, and the place…

…multiple weeks, extending the drama of revelation and surprise. The ClimateGate dump was one event that became a central touchstone of discussion and worldbuilding for an established community; the Podesta…

…places and to a large city,” making it “an exceptional event for an Ebola outbreak up until today” (Samb 2014). Despite these worrisome signs, Jochum lamented, the international response had…

…on both. By enfolding the grassroots into health care delivery, the CCU provides a stopgap to containment efforts, but only if patients regard these places as sites where they will…

…number one most frequently stolen item in the United States, surpassing alcohol and cigarettes (and raising disturbing questions about the systems in place when a top target of criminalized theft…

…one of the poorest areas of one of the poorest states in Mexico while at the same prototyping a new energy future for the Mexican petrostate. For one former director…

…proximal formation of systems ecology in the 1960s. Kenneth Watt was one of the key figures in clearing the space for systems ecology in this period. In 1962 he published…

…or navigate between them. Where then, does the desire for totality come from? What forms of government, and what kinds of collectives demand totality—even if a Phyrric form—and what kinds…

…also be unique: if there is a single other bill exactly like it, one of them is a counterfeit. The bill must be very easy and cheap for the Mint…

…kind of vulnerabilities that we [LulzSec] were exploiting at Fortune 500 companies, I don’t think that there is a lack of technology or knowledge in place to stop vulnerabilities from…

…to actually do something against crime. One classic way to do this is to downgrade complaints. For example, someone comes in the police headquarter and reports a rape. The problem…

…a poor substitute for a health clinic staffed by experts. No one would, or should, mistake it for a hospital. Moreover, a bandage placed over a poorly cleaned wound risks…

…the center store. For example, one major CPG recently experimented with the cookies and crackers aisle in a small number of midwestern grocery stores. They removed more than a dozen…

…field made an urgent request for a portable biocontainment laboratory, but only one was available and it was needed in the US. The State Department searched for pre-packaged field hospitals…

…for Global Development, promises to pay a set amount for each “unit” of an agreed result. One pilot project developed by the British Department for International Development (DFID) in Ethiopia…