…conflict was not between labor and capital or between capitalism and socialism: the problem shifted to technology itself, to the intrinsic political capacities and implications of sources of energies and…

…sounds of 11 children clanking about the breakfast table and scurrying off to school. He had to make his way to the Port of Conakry to inspect the arriving outre-mer…

…for later retrieval. The system was intended to act as a practical tool to organize and archive family memories in a digital age. However, test users did not use the…

…amateurs to organize the recruitment and training of walkers, to renounce previously widespread practices of free roaming and keen observation of their patches, to dedicate time to natural reserves, to…

…hacking the FBI, downloading a top-secret document, removing the top-secret markings on it, and then producing it as evidence we wanted to use at trial. Co-counsel and I were completely…

…persuaded his correspondents to send to him the results of blood-group tests. He channeled the administrative power of an organization with totalizing political ambitions (the WHO) towards the scientific rearticulation…

…can be used because of this predictability to, in her words, “anchor translations between surveys and global indices.” Normal goods, she says, make scales hang together. So boats and cell…

…about how much it will cost to build, about who has the ability and the right to wield it, and how the information it produces will be put to use….

…the international tobacco control field. To conclude, I want to reflect on how this story relates to wider historical accounts about the proliferation of micro-technologies within international development and humanitarian…

…undermine efforts to adhere to best practices has made it extremely difficult to traffic in blood. It has made it hard to move biospecimens at all, despite the existence of…

…how much energy will be used, how much transportation will be required, and which raw material will be used. Working around these obstacles requires developing multiple scenarios, each with their…

…be turned into “development devices” amenable to abstraction and adaptation to other times and places? Could and should consumer and class-based desires be used to guide the making and marketing…

…military world, and refers to a soldier who goes to the front in order to see whether an enemy is advancing. It is instructive to contrast the sentinel with two…

…clothed, better housed, in better health, with greater security and more leisure—and thus better able to enjoy and pursue the spiritual values that are and will remain our dearest possession”…

…and systems theorists. All told, in the postwar world, a systems approach enabled researchers to fathom what had happened, to protect against it happening to American G.I.s (it was hoped),…

…token, however, the freeze has made systemic risk the object of regulatory scrutiny at precisely the moment when it is most difficult to map out the markets’ heterogeneous parts. I…

…matter of knowing where to look for information, where to publish it, and ultimately how to use new and old media to unlock its potential. Poking around at the fetid…

…are exceptionally visible to end-users when they fail because they are essential to the smooth operation of society. They create conditions for economic activity, produce collective security and introduce reliability…

…is, for Twitter, caught between competing desires: reporting back what Twitter users care about most, versus drawing new users into new conversations. Users too are caught between competing desires: wanting…

…a deterministic way. We still have to consider how public infrastructures—and thus these material, spatial, and technical elements—result from collective decision-making arrangements. How is the power to plan, build, and…

…viruses like Ebola. In early 2014, however, Chimerix was asked to provide brincidofovir to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to determine…

…vote. How can everyone be sure you’re using actually random numbers to choose the districts? If you get to select the numbers, you could rig the election. So you use…

…than happy to advise the British. Gaston Muraz, head of the service, personally came to Gueckedou to meet with Lourie, and took him in the field to witness the functioning…

…the toilet is an unsuitable place to visit, use, let alone to hang around (Thieme 2010). IkoToilets are intended to provide a significant step-change in the quality of public toilets…