Epistemographer

On a campus like Cornell’s, you’d like to think that it would be relatively easy to get a wireless internet connection up and running. Unfortunately, the campus wireless network is a patchwork of balkanized zones, with one overarching initiative linking some of them, but which doesn’t cover any of the buildings in which the Science & Technology Studies department lives and works.

To get a wireless connection on the seventh floor of Clark Hall (where this conference is), I had to go to a small room in the basement and plead with some network admins to add my MAC address to the list for their special, standalone wireless access point. Pain in the butt, but I’m online now.

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