…anywhere in the country,” said the consultant. “Ask him to guess what chain he is in.” Chances are, he can’t. The “punchline” is left unsaid, because grocery insiders intuitively know…

…archive of biometric governance that would identify all Indians: voluntarily for UIDAI, and by law for NPR. Each was building an archive to digitize traces of all persons in India,…

…liquefied petroleum gas. The Enduring Project of Improving Stoves in Rural India In some regions of the world, improved biofuel stoves have diffused successfully. In rural India, however, massive efforts…

Innovation by Design In 2012, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) launched its Innovation Hub (i-Hub). It thereby followed a trend among development actors who see innovation, broadly…

…will you be safe. We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forget. We do not forgive. Be afraid of us, Islamic State and Al Qaeda—you will get our…

…online popularity ended up contributing to former Chancellor Katehi’s resignation. In an attempt to manage UC Davis’s online image, Katehi authorized $175,000 in university funds to scrub the Internet of…

…of anarchism, hacktivism, and politics (Spitters et al., 2014: 1). All of this has increased the risks involved in using Tor. As shown in numerous studies (AlSabah et al., 2012,…

…good health” where health was a form of “human capital” that everyone possessed and could choose to invest in and increase (Grossman 1972:xiv–vx). Given his interest in health at a…

…products. In demographic marketing, groups of people and groups of products are mutually defining: brand strategists understand pizzas in terms of people and people in terms of pizzas. Synaptic Functions…

…in India” (Phadnis 2013:1). To undermine the U.S. intelligence machinery, it implied, was also to demonstrate technical mastery. These responses illustrate a tension within the CEH credential: it sought to…

…from a given investment (an increase from A to B in fig. 1) than by the larger, established businesses served by traditional banks. The gain in profit for entrepreneurs that…

…(approximately US$50; Fig. 4). Fig. 4. Entry-level smartphone on display at Digicel retail outlet, 2014. Photo by R. Foster. For Karen, the phone was helpful in overcoming her nervousness about…

…customers in Charleston, South Carolina. “The ice trade in New York.” Harper’s Weekly, August 30th, 1884. 1803: The Cold Chain: While the application of heat is inexorably tied to the…

…antiglobalist, environmental, or social justice movements. They are generally presented in opposition to industrial food systems. But I would argue that the industrial and alternative systems in fact support each…

…across an industry. In practice, though, the increase in quantity by orders of magnitude—combined with immediate and widespread distribution—has not made for bigger truths. Instead, it has enabled more truths…or…

…visually uninspiring…” The IKEA Shelter. Photos: Mark E. Breeze. Tents have been the go-to shelter for humanitarian organizations for more than 50 years. The UN Refugee Agency distributes tens of…

…accessible through computers and, increasingly, internet-enabled smartphones. Such efforts underpinned conceptualizations of the smart city that IBM fostered and Philadelphia adopted beginning around 2010. These digital services format into a…

…al., 2011) for this project. And yet, technologies are always “interpretively flexible” (Orlikowski, 1992), usable for ends their designers did not intend. At extraordinary moments a sizable portion of the…

…steered toward computer vision for weapons; ones interested in robots are directed into military drone research; others interested in environment or green energy are funneled into the interesting sounding MIT…

…recipes that use it as an ingredient, or strategies to incorporate the product into a daily balanced diet. It is here that the consumer discovers the conspicuously inconspicuous information panel,…

…pantry (November 1923: 11). [In the fall] [t]he old nesting instinct arises in the breast of the housewife and she wants to fill the larder (October 1924: 10). The autumn…

…market for omega-3 supplements and for foods and beverages fortified with omega-3s was $195 million in 2004. By 2011, it was estimated at $13 billion. For Omega Protein, the real…

…was positive. The installation in Mathare generated national and international discussion about public sanitation. By 2010, EcoTact had built 40 other IkoToilets across Nairobi, including installations in Nairobi’s central business…