…very strongly through their marketing and PR people. Most of the time, their research is actually very interesting, so it’s not necessarily—like if you use marketing, it’s not necessarily bad….

…only shape-shifting but whose value remains culturally and economically underdetermined, a little bit suspect—David encourages customers to reevaluate their judgments. “Last time you didn’t like the Rupert? Try it again”…

…of groups cooperating, or problems with multiple groups independently being in a system. And this is because there are only so many targets that are really high-value targets, who could…

…not simply composed of hackers. And sometimes, most significantly, I am silent; there is a lot I don’t say or even currently put into written word. As I recently explained…

…a bit, the house cook might freshly peel and slice a blackened plantain, perfectly ripe and sweet, and slip the thick rounds into blistering hot, red palm oil until the…

…Morris’s intentions. On the one hand, what Morris did, objectively, was to force certain security vulnerabilities to be fixed by writing a program that publicly exploited them. As the author…

…specialized sort: not one of particular objects, but instead of the most generic objects possible, against which others can be benchmarked, simultaneously completely typical and as specific as exacting measurement…

…corporations (nearly all the rest of the funding, from companies like BP and Bank of America), MIT largely embeds the needs of the most powerful in society into durable technologies….

…fundamentally arbitrary threshold value, can influence my and others’ lives in such a profound way. Personally I will probably ignore the advice for now: after all, my HDL/LDL ratio and…

…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…

A squat gray building of only eight stories. Over the course of 2014 and 2015, The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) slowly discovered—and even more slowly disclosed—that it had…

…initially handled the case. The perception was that she was intentionally limiting the scope of the prosecution because she was closely connected to the football team through her son. Social…

…flood some 120 km (nearly 75 miles) of the newly built highway. It would literally wash away millions of dollars of investment, not to mention years of struggle by local…

…than as edicts of truth. Both internally and externally, Anonymous is constantly undertaking the work of opinion formation and expression rather than allowing truth to do the work of politics…

…certainly shouted as loudly as he had when the time had come. Enough to satisfy their honor, before capitulating to the unstoppable force of nontechnical certitude about deeply technical subjects….

…group” means, or at least thinks they do — it is at root a specially designed room fully rigged with microphones and a conference table, possibly equipped with a box…

…also are likely to be different in other ways. Poor entrepreneurs are less likely to have relevant skills and connections. The bamboo-stool maker probably is hindered by more than the…

…develop new capacities, overcome blindness, see reality clearly, and so on. Only such transformed development workers would be able to effectively take this kit to the field to elicit the…

…most currently available imaginaries about technologies. But is it really that easy? Is radical engineering simply the result of a bit of remixing? Obviously it is a much more complicated…