…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…

…attention to existing inequalities and can thereby exacerbate them, academics and practitioners are increasingly using the term “inclusive innovation” to describe innovation practices that explicitly aim to improve the lives…

…incentive to invest money in making sure their systems are vulnerability-free, because security isn’t a key value proposition in their business model, it’s merely an overhead cost to be minimized….

…and we get overwhelmed. And everyone gets—readers get overwhelmed too. And if you dump 3,000 emails, you’re just going to get a certain level of attention. If you do it…

…next generation, who now runs some of the most influential pirate libraries. In a culture, where the know-how of how to resist information monopolies is part of the collective memory,…

…to log into a site from password-guessing algorithms trying to break in; CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart. CAPTCHAs succeed at blocking…

…are asked to think forward into the future, to evaluate their lives in the round, to rank their anxiety against their contentment. Seen from another angle, however, simplicity is a…

…invisible Forms. To approach such knowledge, philosophers require a rigorous and technical education, which includes arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and dialectic. Those who achieve knowledge of the Forms gain access to…

…famous for having produced such a demo. After a prolific career at the Psychology Institute in Berlin, he fled Germany in 1933 and, towards the end of the decade, settled…

…human rights in a connected society while continuing to act as its gatekeepers. Whether creating or contributing to free software, helping someone in need, or pushing internet corporations to be…

…political risks of nuclear energy and thereby turned energy infrastructures into a contested public problem. They also found ways to turn infrastructure into a terrain for political struggles in a…

…the idea of a strong central government, here an inverted pyramid in which information appears to fall into a single repository. Identified with the passionate attachment to the singular nation…

…such as cisterns, rain barrels, latrines, and muddy streets where the mosquitoes bred. The U.S. government built urban infrastructure in Panama not to promote modernization, per se, but to protect…

Over 5,000 tweets using the #needsoftheoccupiers hashtag (used by occupations to list current needs) were collected from October to December of last year, then geo-located and sorted into top unique…

…But these lapses in reporting and identification pale in comparison to the delays in international public health intervention as the epidemic grew in full public view. Incredibly, WHO did not…

…of a pandemic that can cause complex and contradictory narratives to fold together into a simplified historical picture of plague. By bringing this single “iconic” photograph back into relation with…

…to its time and status information. This string is then signed with NIST’s private key, a cryptographic tool for proving that NIST in fact sent it; that collection of data…

…unknown) to consumers. Instead of waiting for companies and governments to provide truthful representations of foods and their ingredients, citizens are encouraged to “take things into their own hands,” append…

…it insufficient in one country made it extravagant in another. So although the Better Shelter tries to be better everywhere, it can never hope to adapt to the infinite complexity…

…their data and must explain, in front of their own chief, how they responded to the reported crimes in their precinct. They are asked to analyze and use for themselves,…