H ow do we realistically assess the past, present, and future of our security and privacy technology? Like Spider-Man, with our great computing power comes great responsibility—to use our power wisely, to design high-quality security and privacy applications, and to quickly correct errors and improve results. The difficulty of predicting the future of security and privacy is often accompanied b...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 63, No. 1, 2014 (“New Perspectives on Intellectual Freedom,” edited by Mark McCallon), pp. 57–74. © 2014 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract The “Fiske Report” is the popular title for a study conducted in the late 1950s under the auspices of the University of California School of Librarianship with the financial support of the Fund for the Republic, a li...

During the Cold War the United States developed an espionage style that reflected its love affair with technology (technophilia) whereas the Soviet Union and the East Bloc continued a tradition of using humans to collect intelligence. This essay places the origins and development of these espionage styles during the Cold War in historical and social context, and assesses their strengths and wea...

R RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy through research and analysis. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of its research sponsors. Preface This essay was prepared for a project sponsored by the Office of Research and Development, Central Intelligence Agency, on the decisionmaking of leaders in states that may be obtaining or using weapon...

In recent years, a number of commentators have voiced unease about the direction and format of the Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conference. Drawing on historical, literary and philosophical perspectives, and detailing the recent shift towards incorporating systems-based approaches to healthcare safety into the M&M, this article explores the nature and purpose of the M&M conference. It is argue...

Gender transition may be figured as part of a broader creaturely process being partners in our own becoming. is explored through the lenses transformation (including comparisons with theosis and religious conversion) neurodiversity. Humans are transformative creatures; trans gender-variant people, like others, have power to curate their identities on journey toward perfection. Our nature humans...