New Books in Technology
Episodes
Tom Jackson, “Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
19 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Jackson‘s Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again (Bloomsbury, 2015) is a completely engrossing look into the history...
Alexandra Minna Stern, “Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)
10 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Due in part to lobbying efforts on behalf of the human genome project, human genes tend to be thought of in light of the present–genetic components ...
Janet Vertesi, “Seeing like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
10 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Janet Vertesi‘s fascinating new book is an ethnography of the Mars Rover mission that takes readers into the practices involved in working with the ...
Jonathan Coopersmith, “Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
17 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Coopersmith‘s new book takes readers through the century-and-a-half-long history of the fax machine and the technologies that shaped and we...
Christian Fuchs, “Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media” (Routledge, 2015)
28 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Social media is now a pervasive element of many people’s lives. in order to best understand this phenomenon we need a comprehensive theory of the po...
Jenifer Van Vleck, “Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy” (Harvard UP, 2013)
14 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
[Re-posted with permission from Who Makes Cents?] Today’s guest discusses the history of aviation and how this provides a lens to interpret the hist...
Charis Thompson, “Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research” (MIT Press, 2013)
08 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Charis Thompson‘s Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research (MIT Press, 2013) is an important book. Good Science explores the “...
John Sharp, “Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art” (MIT Press, 2015)
01 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
That games, particularly video games, could be viewed as art should come as no surprise. And yet, a debate exists over what is and should be considere...
Greg Siegel, “Forensic Media: Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity” (Duke UP, 2014)
26 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Siegel‘s new book is a wonderfully engaging and meticulously researched account of a dual tendency in modern technological life: treating foren...
Jon L. Mills, “Privacy in the New Media Age” (University Press of Florida, 2015)
25 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
That privacy in the digital age is an important concept to be discussed is axiomatic. Cameras in mobile phones make it easy to record events and post ...
Myles W. Jackson, “The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race” (MIT Press, 2015)
18 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you allow human materials to become property? More specifically, how does granting monopoly rights over genetic material affect the ...
Naomi S. Baron, “Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World” (Oxford UP, 2015)
01 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Screens are ubiquitous. From the screen on a mobile, to that on a tablet, or laptop, or desktop computer, screens appear all around us, full of conten...
Christine L. Borgman, “Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World” (MIT Press, 2015)
20 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Social media and digital technology now allow researchers to collect vast amounts of a variety data quickly. This so-called “big data,” and the pr...
Robert W. Gehl, “Reverse Engineering Social Media” (Temple UP, 2014)
13 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Reverse Engineering Social Media: Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism (Temple University Press, 2014) by Robert Gehl (Un...
Casey O’Donnell, “Developer’s Dilemma: The Secret World of Videogame Creators” (MIT Press, 2014)
06 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book, Developer’s Dilemma: The Secret World of Videogame Creators (MIT Press, 2014), Casey O’Donnell, an assistant professor in the dep...
Yasmin B. Kafai and Quinn Burke, “Connected Code: Why Children Need to Learn Programming” (MIT, 2014)
07 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Although the push to persuade everyone to learn to code is quite the current rage, the coding movement has roots that extend back for more than a few ...
Thomas Leitch, “Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)
04 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Wikipedia is one of the most popular resources on the web, with its massive collection of articles on an incredible number of topics. Yet, its user wr...
Stephen Goldsmith and Susan Crawford, “The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance” (Jossey-Bass, 2014)
01 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Without a doubt, the paramount duty of a municipality, of any size, is the delivery services to its constituents. These services range from the season...
Frank Pasquale, “The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information” (Harvard UP, 2015)
24 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Hidden algorithms make many of the decisions that affect significant areas of society: the economy, personal and organizational reputation, the promot...
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, “Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe” (MIT Press, 2014)
14 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Words have meaning. More specifically, the definitions attached to words shape our perspective on, and how we categorize, the things that we encounter...
Johanna Drucker, “Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production” (Harvard University Press, 2014)
11 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Johanna Drucker‘s marvelous new book gives us a language with which to talk about visual epistemology.Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Productio...
James Giordano, “Neurotechnology in National Security and Defense” (CRC Press, 2014)
04 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Neurotechnology in National Security and Defense: Practical Considerations, Neuroethical Concerns (CRC Press, 2014), edited by Dr. James Giordano, is ...
Carolyn L. Kane, “Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics after Code” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
03 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Carolyn L. Kane’s new book traces the modern history of digital color, focusing on the role of electronic color in computer art and media aesthetics...
Victor Pickard, “America’s Battle for Media Democracy” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
25 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The media system in the United States could have developed into something very different than what it is today. In fact, there was an era in which sig...
Alon Peled, “Traversing Digital Babel: Information, E-Government, and Exchange” (MIT Press, 2014)
07 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Failure by government agencies to share information has had disastrous results globally. From the inability to prevent terrorist attacks, like the 9-1...
Ethan Zuckerman, “Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection” (Norton, 2013)
06 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In the early days of the Internet, optimists saw the future as highly connected, where voices from across the globe would mingle and learn from one an...
John Tresch, “The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon” (U Chicago Press, 2014)
30 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
After the Second World War, the Hungarian Marxist Georg Lukacs described National Socialism as a triumph of irrationalism and a “destruction of reas...
Don Lincoln, “The Large Hadron Collider” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)
09 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Don Lincoln‘s new book, The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind (Johns Hopkin...
Hugh F. Cline, “Information Communication Technology and Social Transformation” (Routledge, 2014)
09 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
There is no doubt that innovations in technology have had, and are having, a significant impact on society, changing the way we live, work, and play. ...
Jeremy Lipschultz, “Social Media Communication: Concepts, Practices, Data, Law, and Ethics” (Routledge, 2014)
07 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Social media is a phenomenon that continues to grow and attract much attention in the form of consternation, commentary, criticism and scholarly resea...
John Tresch, “The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
05 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
John Tresch‘s beautiful new book charts a series of transformations that collectively ushered in a new cosmology in the Paris of the early-mid ninet...
Tim Anderson, “Popular Music in a Digital Music Economy” (Routledge, 2014)
23 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Since the 1990s, the music industry has been going through a massive transformation. After World War II, the primary way audiences participated in the...
Daryn Lehoux, “What Did the Romans Know?: An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
16 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Daryn Lehoux‘s new book will forever change the way you think about garlic and magnets. What Did the Romans Know?: An Inquiry into Science and Worl...
Josh Lerner, “Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics” (MIT Press, 2014)
28 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Lerner is the author of Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics (MIT Press, 2014). Lerner earned his Ph...
Ronen Shamir, “Current Flow: The Electrification of Palestine” (Stanford UP, 2013)
23 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Ronen Shamir‘s new book is a timely and thoughtful study of the electrification of Palestine in the early twentieth century. Current Flow: The Elect...
Judith Donath, “The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online” (MIT Press, 2014)
19 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The conversation about the Web and social media skews toward a discussion of the potential for connections, and how both individuals and organizations...
Amit Prasad, “Imperial Technoscience: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India” (MIT Press, 2014)
09 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book, Imperial Technoscience: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India (MIT Press, 2014), Amit Prasad, an ...
Lisa Gitelman, “Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents” (Duke UP, 2014)
09 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
“One doesn’t so much read a death certificate, it would seem, as perform calisthenics on one…” From the first, prefatory page of Lisa Gitelm...
Payal Arora, “The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0” (Routledge, 2014)
02 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Scholars and commentators have used metaphor in an attempt to describe the Web since public access began. Think of ideas like the information highway,...
Vili Lehdonvirta and Edward Castronova, “Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis” (MIT, 2014)
19 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The continued growth of online gaming and virtual worlds has effects not only in the analog world, with games and social media organizations taking st...
Lori Emerson, “Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound” (University of Minnesota, 2014)
12 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
How much do we really think about the technology that we spend so much time using? More specifically, have you really ever considered the possible eff...
David Nemer, “Favela Digital: The Other Side of Technology” (GSA Editora e Grafica, 2013)
05 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Inherently problematic in most mainstream discussions of the impact of technology is the dominant western or global northern perspective. In this way,...
Vincent Mosco, “To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World” (Paradigm Publishers, 2014)
29 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The “cloud” and “cloud computing” have been buzzwords over the past few years, with businesses and even governments praising the ability to sa...
Lawrence Goldstone, “Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies” (Ballentine, 2014)
18 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies (Ballentine Books, 2014), Lawrence Goldstone recounts the discover...
danah boyd, “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” (Yale UP, 2014)
12 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Social media is ubiquitous, and teens are ubiquitous on social media. And this youth attachment to social media is a cause for concern among parents, ...
Michael Saler, “As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality” (Oxford UP, 2012)
12 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality (Oxford, 2012), historian Michael Saler explores the precursors of the cur...
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, “Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age” (Oxford UP, 2014)
05 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The Oxford University Press series on digital politics has produced several new books that we have featured on the podcast. Interviews with Dave Karpf...
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, “Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age” (Oxford UP, 2014)
18 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Digital Communications Technologies, or DCTs, like the Internet offer the infrastructure and means of forming a networked society. These technologies,...
Paul-Brian McInerney, “From Social Movement to Moral Market: How the Circuit Riders Sparked an IT Revolution and Created a Technology Market” (Stanford UP, 2014)
14 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Paul-Brian McInerney is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He is the author of From Social Movement to Moral Mark...
Nick Yee, “The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us-and How They Don’t” (Yale UP, 2014)
11 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The image of online gaming in popular culture is that of an addictive pastime, mired in escapism. And the denizens of virtual worlds are thought to be...
Adam Thierer, “Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom” (Mercatus Center, 2014)
04 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Much of the progress in technology today has come about as a result of innovators who did not seek prior approval from regulatory bodies and such. Yet...
Andrew L. Russell, “Open Standards in the Digital Age” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
27 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
We tend to take for granted that much of the innovation in the technology that we use today, in particular the communication technology, is made possi...
Robert Neer, “Napalm: An American Biography” (Harvard UP, 2013)
13 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Just as there is no one way to write a biography, nor should there be, so there is no rule dictating that biography must be about the life of a person...
Thomas Bey William Bailey, “Unofficial Release: Self-Released and Handmade Audio in Post-Industrial Society” (Belsona Books, 2012)
22 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Bey William Bailey is the author of Unofficial Release: Self-Released and Handmade Audio in Post-Industrial Society (Belsona Books, 2012). He i...
Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell, “How to Watch Television” (NYU Press, 2013)
16 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
What if there was an instruction manual for television? Not just for the casual consumer, but for college students interested in learning about the cu...
William J. Clancey, “Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers” (MIT Press, 2012)
03 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
How does conducting fieldwork on another planet, using a robot as a mobile laboratory, change what it means to be a scientist? In Working on Mars: Vo...
Aaron S. Moore, “Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945” (Stanford UP, 2013)
26 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We tend to understand the modernization of Japan as a story of its rise as a techno-superpower. In East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japa...
Jonathan Sterne, “MP3: The Meaning of a Format” (Duke UP, 2012)
10 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke University Press, 2012) is a fascinating study of the MP3 as a historical, cultural, conceptual, and social phenome...
Ian Samson, “Paper: An Elegy” (Harper Collins, 2012)
24 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In our digital world, it does seem like paper is dying by inches. Bookstores are going out of business, and more and more people get their news from t...
David Munns, “A Single Sky: How an International Community Forged the Science of Radio Astronomy” (MIT Press, 2012)
29 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
How do you measure a star? In the middle of the 20thcentury, an interdisciplinary and international community of scientists began using radio waves t...
John O. McGinnis, “Accelerating Democracy: Transforming Governance Through Technology” (Princeton UP, 2013)
10 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The advent of very powerful computers and the Internet have not “changed everything,” but it has created a new communications context within which...
Nicco Mele, “The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath” (St. Martin’s Press, 2013)
24 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Nicco Mele is the author of The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath (St. Martin’s Press, 2013). He is Adjunct Lecturer in Publi...
Clive Hamilton, “Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering” (Yale UP, 2013)
20 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
It’s getting warmer, there ain’t no doubt about it. What are we going to do? Most folks say we should cut back on bad things like carbon emissions...
Dominic Pettman, “Human Error” (UMinnesota, 2011)/”Look at the Bunny” (Zero Books, 2013)
31 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
“The humans are dead.” Whether or not you recognize the epigram from Flight of the Conchords (and if not, there are worse ways to spend a few min...
Douglas Rushkoff, “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now” (Current, 2013)
21 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Humans understand the world through stories, some short and some long. But what happens when the stories become so short that they, well, aren’t sto...
Joseph November, “Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012)
14 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
There are pigeons, cats, and Martians here. There are CT scanners, dentures, computers large enough to fill rooms, war games, and neural networks. In ...
Paul Barrett, “Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun” (Broadway, 2013)
02 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
History is in many respects the story of humanity’s quest for transcendence: to control life and death, time and space, loss and memory. When invent...
David Hochfelder, “The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012)
23 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), David Hochfelder provides a taut and consistently intelligent history o...
Robert W. McChesney, “Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy” (The New Press, 2013)
04 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Robert W. McChesney, the celebrated political economist of communication, takes the Internet, industry and government head-on in his latest book, Digi...
C.W. Anderson, “Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age” (Temple UP, 2013)
03 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Somewhere along the line, C.W. Anderson became fascinated with digital journalism and the culture that surrounds it: engaged publics, social networks,...
Alec Foege, “The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great” (Basic Books, 2013)
17 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
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Alec Foege, "The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great" (Basic Books, 2013)
17 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
From its earliest years, the United States was a nation of tinkerers: men and women who looked at the world around them and were able to create someth...
Ines Mergel, “Social Media in the Public Sector: A Guide to Participation, Collaboration and Transparency in the Networked World” (Jossey-Bass 2012)
16 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Ines Mergel, assistant professor of public administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the School of Information Studie...
David Wolman, “The End Of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers, and the Coming Cashless Society” (Da Capo Press, 2012)
08 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us in the western world don’t rely on bills and coins as much as we used to, yet the idea of cash money is still an ever-present constant in...
Barry Kernfeld, “Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution Since 1929” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
17 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever illegally downloaded a song from the internet? How about illicitly burned copies of a CD? Made a “party tape?” Bought a bootleg albu...
Allen Buchanan, “Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves” (Oxford UP, 2011)
01 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Popular culture is replete with warnings about the dangers of technology. One finds in recent films, literature, and music cautions about the myriad w...
Peter-Paul Verbeek, “Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
15 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
“Guns don’t kill people; people do.” That’s a common refrain from the National Rifle Association, but it expresses a certain view of our relat...
Daqing Yang, “Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883-1945” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2010)
15 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Daqing Yang‘s Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883-1945 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011) is a gift t...
Kimbrew McLeod and Peter DiCola, “Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling” (Duke University Press, 2011)
04 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
One hallmark of important art, in any medium, is a thoughtful relation with artistic precursors. Every artist reckons with heroes and rivals, influenc...
Siva Vaidhyanathan, “The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)” (U. California Press, 2011)
04 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) (University of California Press, 2011), Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of medi...
Louis Siegelbaum, “Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile” (Cornell UP, 2008)
22 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
A recent editorial in the Moscow Times declared that in Moscow “the car is king.” Indeed, one word Muscovites constantly mutter is probka (traffic...
Mark Stephen Meadows, “We Robot: Skywalker’s Hand, Blade Runners, Iron Man, Slutbots, and How Fiction Became Fact” (Lyons Press, 2011)
06 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
If technology is the site of digital culture, then robots are the future platforms of our social projections and interactions. In fact, that future is...
Scott Cleland with Ira Brodsky, “Search and Destroy: Why You Can’t Trust Google” (Telescope Books, 2011)
20 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In their new book Search and Destroy: Why You Can’t Trust Google (Telescope Books, 2011), Scott Cleland, President of Precursor LLC, and Ira Brodsky...
Dagmar Schaefer, “The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
31 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In her elegant work of historical puppet theater The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China (University ...
Brian Christian, “The Most Human Human: A Defense of Humanity in the Age of the Computer” (Penguin, 2011)
23 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Can computers think? That was the question which provoked English mathematician Alan Turing to come up with what we call the Turing Test, in which a c...
Robert Goldberg, “Tabloid Medicine: How the Internet is Being Used to Hijack Medical Science for Fear and Profit” (Simon & Schuster, 2010)
18 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week New Books in Public Policy interviews Bob Goldberg about his new book Tabloid Medicine: How the Internet Is Being Used to Hijack Medical Sci...
Joel Wolfe, “Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity” (Oxford UP, 2010)
19 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s something I learned by reading Joel Wolfe’s terrific Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity (Oxford, 2010): the United Stat...