…did win, with a project to work with Nairobi slum dwellers to redesign open spaces to prevent flooding. Fig. 4. Page from KDI’s pilot concept plan submitted to IDEO. Small…

…into those enormous steel bins. Because the Internet is designed to capture and distribute information to the widest audience, once information is posted, it is difficult to erase. The tools…

…Food and Drug Administration shall not approve for use in food any chemical additive found to induce cancer in man, or, after tests, found to induce cancer in animals.” The…

…Ransacker; March 2016). In January 2015, GhostSec became an online citizen’s response to international political violence, working independently of the state but also willing to contribute to its goals. The…

…– including rashes and irritation – when mixing with sweat and absorbing into skin (Osmundsen 1969, Osmundsen and Alani 1971). However, more recent scientific studies contest those findings (Belsito 2002)….

…rates by which we manage aquifers, about how one aquifer bleeds into another, and about the legal instruments (e.g., water use permits) that we use to try to distribute water…

…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…

…taking intense German courses. To do so, he would have to register himself in the Stadtamt (city office), infamous for its very annoyingly snail-slow bureaucracy. The city of Berlin offers…

…address of a Tor user? Not a problem. Trying to uncover the location of a Hidden Service? Done. We know because we tested it, in the wild…. (Volynkin 2014). Figure…

…and communication of feelings and emotions” (Lasen 2004:1). Fig. 1. (left) Digicel newspaper ad, September 2007. Photo by R. Foster Fig. 2. (right) Digicel ad, circa 2011. ❧ In the…

…infrastructures can naturalize some water uses in ways that shape the emphases of drought response and the capacities of various publics to make claims. Sometimes this infrastructural invisibility is an…

U.S. intelligence officers discuss Chinese espionage in dramatically different terms than they use in talking about the Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election of 2016. Admiral Michael Rogers, head…

…matrix, which is indeed a function for translating one into the other: consumers can use the filter to organize items, and marketers can use the filter to organize consumers. Netflix…

…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…

…security capabilities remain undeployed by—or inaccessible to—their users. In one 2009 incident very important in thinking about such IoT-enabled hacking, Shi’ite insurgent forces in Iraq hacked U.S. military surveillance drones,…

…which initially appeared in staggering quantity, truly began to subside. Many who lived in New York in the 1990s will tell you today that they feel much safer. This is…

…the world who have diabetes. Fig. 2. Diabetes mortality. World Health Organization 2014. Used with permission. Today, personal blood glucose meters are widely considered best practice for optimal diabetes management….

…discussions related to international aid and global health (e.g. Cueto 2013). Frequently, the use in this context is both metaphorical and pejorative, indicating a misguided faith in a would-be technical…

…and late-night labwork by grad students by developing an incubator controlled via the Internet. On his blog, Louie writes: This is an incubator re-imagined to be less horrible to use…….

…food documentaries. The video instead showcases little-known instances of innovation and cooperation. It’s like a poultry industry exposé, flipped sunny-side up. Even the turkeys look happy. Driving the video’s cheery…

…also began to incorporate genomics into their analytic repertoire. They searched old blood for fragments of dna that could and have since informed studies of infectious diseases, including h1n1, h5n1…

…that they wanted you to do what you can do to become your own organizer, to use the tools to organize locally in whatever way you wanted to. They set…

…could buy in blocks from $49 to $249 (which came with an “affair guarantee”). In other words, it was bad for the company’s income for users to proceed swiftly to…

…a census taker. Further, these indices are rendered in an instant and built immediately back into the service itself. Twitter Trends is only one such tool. Search engines, while promising…

…their role unfilled. It implicitly encourages each individual coming into contact with the information to “judge for themselves” its relevance and meaning. This is similar to Benjamin’s observations on the…

…standardized and hardened into a semi-universal state. But the tools are not automatic; a toolkit implies the existence of a skilled tool user as well. A toolkit sits somewhere between…

…market in information separated from its institutional context. In so doing, May thought anonymous leaks could check the power of institutions like governments and corporations, redistributing it back to individuals….

…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…

…conditions is difficult. These dreams of total access to all genomic information inspire and create visions of new routes to universal knowledge and democracy. Yet these commitments to the open…