…circa 2007. People also called numbers randomly in search of phone friends who might become romantically involved and eventually meet face to face. Persistent calls from unknown numbers became a…

…million 16 Number of times an electrical grid has been paralyzed by hackers since 1902: 3. Number of times an electrical grid has been paralyzed by squirrels since 1902: 952.17…

…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…

…to understand why this shelter has generated so much interest since it was first announced in 2013. It has received funding from IKEA, a company that has shaped so much…

…maneuvers. The pedestrian feinted towards the car, which triggered another model, the “suicide by car” system, which invoked a detailed assessment of the pedestrian, looking for clues about sobriety, mental…

…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…

…which was devastated by a massive co-seismic avalanche during the earthquake, the micro-hydropower project has emerged as a technology of hopeful post-disaster recovery and an investment in local autonomy. For…

…To this can be added a third policing characteristic not noted by Foucault but which still plays a major role in the mechanism: the ritual through which the numbers are…

…But even now the future has cast its shadow on the development. People do not realize it yet, but the flow of capital for construction has dried up, and the…

…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…

…everyone in India a unique number—or maybe two unique numbers—stored in supposedly safe databases whose purposes include everything from combatting corruption to delivering “services” to remaking the very composition of…

…(which has recently included new protocols related to the Euratom Directive), staff members at LHC have now to consider laws far stricter with regard to vegetation and animals. As Fabrice…

…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…

…had only recently received its corporate name, which came on the heels of Safaricom’s large injection of capital to revive the site. In a few discreet places, however, the old…

…addresses in the ledger, which represent bitcoin ownership; bitcoins don’t exist apart from their attachment to an address. Think of it as an archive that has rich and meticulous documentation…

…which could feel emptiness and stimulate consumption. It was a storehouse, and the site of first digestion, where the proverbial wheat was cut from the chaff. But it was the…

…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…

…Future,” which included a fictional Special Report by an interagency working group on the lessons learned from the “Super-Ebola” pandemic. “To put it succinctly,” summarized Legters, “the outbreak has confirmed,…

…influential 2000–2001 World Development Report Attacking Poverty, and has been adopted by a number of other organizations, including the DFID and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; World…

…by a single equation: the reproductive ratio, or R0, which determines the average number of people a sick individual will infect. Spreading only through close physical contact with very sick…

…hall website, and managed to get an appointment for late August (which, being early July, was already pretty awesome). The only way to land an earlier spot is through a…

…calls the “hackerly sources of synthetic biology” (2010:83) have mostly faded away in what has become a fully institutionalized and global research field. Instead, the term has become part of…

…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…

…information,” and the ways in which this aura cuts against norms of analysis, investigation, and interpretation, norms which professionalized journalists had until recently been in a powerful position to defend…

…each. What has the project of development become when its interventions are focused on individual outcomes—or the outcomes of small communities—rather than a vision of longer-term societal transformation? What is…