…numbers. It’s terrible. I can’t stop crying about it. I had the same phone for four years, and had so many numbers, so many friends. And now it’s all gone.”…

…monitored to search for phreaks & fraud between 1964 and 1970: 33 million Number of calls recorded for the same purpose over the same time period: 1.5 million 16 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…

…the property line with a phone that hadn’t been apped to reject unapproved packets. It made the school day into a weird kind of news vacuum. There was the day…

…of universal solutions. At the same time, it has been designed to be cheap and lightweight, so it will always be “too little” for those with bigger ideas about what…

…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…

…vital for day-to-day care. Fig. 3. “Cash for diabetic test strips” sign at Pennsylvania intersection (photo by author). I first encountered these issues as an anthropologist following people’s stories about…

…When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Today we might say: “This is New York, sir. There is no longer any difference between fact and legend.” The numbers are…

…a day when they will flood all of this and we’ll have to move up higher.” Fig. 1: Boundary marker near Gatun Lake in 2008. Today, the monument identifies the…

…I met in that village near Chittagong University was working all day to make bamboo stools. At the end of the day she made only 2 pennies. My trained mind…

…center, nothing but pure chance? We shake our heads together in puzzlement. 20 July 1917, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, blindfolded, drew the first draft number in the lottery…

…the risk is double because that’s kind of like my job: I have to be on everyday and see what happens everyday. Let me give you an example: yesterday there…

…A thousand AMT workers working for a single day can process data far faster than hiring ten temps for a hundred days. While a day is still far slower than…

…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…

…iconic in games, but also feature regularly in security threat scenarios for “smart city” projects. In early 2017, just days before the inauguration of President Trump, Washington, DC’s downtown surveillance…

…corporations—often in close relationship with states—are able to shape the intimacies and banalities of everyday life in Kenya and elsewhere. *** Safaricom is not just another mobile phone company. Both…

…were exposed in the routine work in emergency departments, hospital wards, and maternity units. Patients with Ebola have the same symptoms as those with malaria, or typhoid, or any number…

…the same in France and in the US. First, new pressures created by the technique induced officers to game the numbers. It is sometimes easier to cheat the report than…

…him right back: broadcasting Turner’s home phone number, previous places of residence, and criminal records. As the doxing feud escalated, online allegations swirled that Turner was an FBI mole, sleuthing…

…into the next and never went to waste. The storage space was useful enough, but she hadn’t asked for the refrigerator. The number of grocery stores in Guatemala doubled in…

…island off the coast of Washington State. That is, until Anonymous once again reared its head. While family members went hiking during the day and watched movies late into the…

…the problem: nearly every grocery store’s Aisle 6 looks exactly the same. Consider the “center store,” the long aisle after aisle of “Aisle 6s,” stocked mostly with packaged goods. These…

…something apparently calls for a fabulous destiny. Most of the literature on the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) inevitably opens with the quasi-same rhetoric. As the biggest experimental device in the…

…and diverging movements, all in flux due to the passage of time. Infiltration test results being recorded. The infiltration speed that we recorded that day would undergo many transformations until,…

…plotted on map inserts, and each target was assigned a number. Then, information on each target—“all necessary detailed facts that will be needed later to make a target analysis”—was punched…