…describe the phenomenal capacity of crowds in various ways, including “wisdom” (Surowiecki, 2004), “wealth” (Benkler, 2006), and “surplus” (Shirky, 2010). It boils down to the simple and perhaps self-evident premise…

…its vectors and all the beings which condition or compromise their existence” (1943:293). The notion of “pathogen complex” led Sorre to propose one the first ecological understanding of infectious diseases,…

…(meaning, try this one, right now), “it’s aged out little more” (or, it’s younger). When I say, “I like Hooligan,” a raw-milk, washed-rind cheese made by Mark Gillman in Connecticut,…

…motivated choices. We don’t have a language for the unexpected associations algorithms make, beyond the intention (or even comprehension) of their designers (Ananny 2011). Most importantly, we have not fully…

…fellow villagers is also common. Godmothers can, for instance, be accused of spreading rumors, or of deception. The confidential nature of pregnancy, the age of godmothers (in some cases younger…

…the failure to build sound epidemiological cohorts, the lack of visibility of “dedicated” clinical structures, and finally the very weak dissemination of epidemiological and clinical knowledge. Today, the absence of…

…(who were themselves influenced by Wilson (1989), the author of the famous broken-windows theory) ideas that led to the creation of compstat, a new policing organization that won the Innovations…

…International Council of E-Commerce Consultants, or EC-Council, to help certify professionals who could protect against attacks on electronic commerce. By 2003 it was offering the “Certified Ethical Hacker” certification (https://www.eccouncil.org/about/)….

…at the farm. So there’s your transmission!” A poster from the Wang family farm, which reads: “Provide human society with green, ecological, organic, healthful, delicious food … Promote the harmonious…

…market” (African Union 2010:2). Fig. 2: “PIDA’s Energy Impact” from the African Union’s vision statement, “Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa: Interconnecting, Integrating, and Transforming a Continent,” pg. 12 Although…

…Arendt’s words, a “despotic character” like that of the philosopher-kings: its rule is absolute (1993:241).[6] By contrast, in “matters of opinion…validity depends upon free agreement and consent; they are arrived…

…interest” (Darnton 2009). In the course of seeking the settlement’s rejection, Darnton proposed an alternative “national digital library” which later became articulated as “an open, distributed network of comprehensive online…

…can belong to the “Union-wide list” of PCIs (European Union 2013:68). The European importance of “high-capacity electricity highways” (European Commission 2013:6) results from the definition of so-called “priority thematic areas.”…

…“Mockus won in Putumayo [the one territory he actually won], Twitter and Facebook.” The day after the presidential election, I met with President Santos’ main strategist, J.J Rendón. He celebrated…

…Branch of the U.S. Army’s Air Intelligence Division, described the elements of “The Bombing Encyclopedia of the World.” The Bombing Encyclopedia, he said, was “a huge index of basic, factual…

…action” (IEEE n.D.: section 2.4.2). Even when following such an officially recognized IEEE ethical code, “failure, discovery, and unintended or collateral consequences of success” (Greenwald et. al. 2008:78) could potentially…

…time, with different ones dominating the mix at different times of year (Runckel et al 2011). And in many cases, these are perfectly healthy colonies, which don’t appear compromised in…

…of alternatives used in other linguistic markup schemes (e.g., Past, PST, RemotePast, HodiernalPast, and so on). A reduced ontology—one with ultimate compatibility with the Semantic Web—thus enables more languages, resources,…

…ontologically constituted as information. The opening epigraph, from a boutique collection of “data visualisation stories from around the world,” gestures toward a collective form, one in which data—like organic matter—“rots,”…

…under Reagan, Bergsten would become the Institute’s first and only director.[3] (See Table 1 for the trajectories of actors that played critical roles in the creation of the Institute.) The…

…The buzzwords of the brave new world of big data include “cloud computing,” “algorithms,” “filters,” “virtualization,” and “scalable infrastructures.” Terrabytes and exabytes and petabytes of data are produced by Facebook…

…Panama Canal Authority (ACP) and gave it the mandate of managing the canal for profit and “the human and socioeconomic development of the country” (Government of Panama, 1997). The quasi-autonomous…

…bring down the entire system or market” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_risk, accessed November 20, 2010). Frank Knight formulated the classic distinction between risk and uncertainty. Here is Knight’s delineation of the two concepts….

…digital leaks have also multiplied: Offshore Leaks (or the “Panama Papers”, “Swiss Leaks” and “Luxembourg Leaks”), published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the “Drone Papers”, published…

…portion of the population during the critical migration and spawning period” (US Fish and Wildlife Service 2016a). Based on the working group’s recommendation, the Fish and Wildlife Service reduced the…