Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
by Malcolm Gladwell · 1 Oct 2024 · 283pp · 85,644 words
orchestrating the course of contagious behavior. I know that sounds dramatic. But the truth is that all kinds of people engage in this kind of social engineering—and they aren’t always honest about what they are doing. 3. The pioneer in thinking about the implications of tipping points was a sociologist
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principle which in a well ordered world should have needed no such proving. The existence of tipping points creates an irresistible opportunity to engage in social engineering. It makes you want to tinker with the number of women on a corporate board or rearrange the minority students in an elementary classroom. But
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do with the Magic Third and Rosabeth Kanter’s ideas about group proportions. But what Harvard is doing is very different from the kind of social engineering tried by the Lawrence Tract. The participants in that experiment made no secret of what they were doing. They wanted to manipulate their numbers, and
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they called their members together to work out the details. Social engineering takes on a very different face, however, when the engineers go about their business in secret. There is far too much of this second, hidden
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playing for Harvard that rainy day at Princeton, it was easy to see how the sport was tailor-made for a little extra bit of social engineering. This team—like most other sports teams at Harvard—was overwhelmingly white. The members came from some of the nicest upper-middle-class communities in
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body has been properly prepared for the Harvard experience on the country-club playing fields of the United States. If you don’t think that social engineering has quietly become one of the central activities of the American establishment, you haven’t been paying attention. Footnotes 1 Khoury was acquitted. And if
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those two days in downtown Boston was nothing less than a public-health disaster. The Lawrence Tract and Harvard’s rugby team are examples of social engineering. Tipping points create an irresistible temptation to intervene in the world. But with that temptation come very difficult questions. How do we balance the needs
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of the individual against those of the group? This chapter is about a third, even more difficult, social-engineering challenge—the one raised by the Biogen meeting at the Marriott Long Wharf. It has to do with the unsettling reality of how epidemics spread
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by that difficulty, apparently, that we’d rather breathe dirty air. In this section of the book, we’ve dealt with well-meaning attempts at social engineering that run into impossible problems: What if the only way to save a community devoted to helping black people is to turn black people away
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? Harvard’s rugby team is an example of a second kind of social-engineering problem: What do we do when institutions quietly manipulate their numbers in order to sustain the privilege of a few? But here I want to
The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America
by John Fabian Witt · 14 Oct 2025 · 735pp · 279,360 words
ABA-approved law school in 1931. That same year the American Association of Law Schools admitted the institution to membership. Houston’s assembly line of social engineers for the race had begun to roll.11 * * * The eight Alabama convictions in April 1931 scrambled Houston’s plans for technocratic legal engineering. Scottsboro, Houston
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the same way. Scottsboro in this sense was an opportunity, but it was one that pressed Houston to develop strategies unlike any of the technocratic social engineering tactics he and Margold had learned from Frankfurter.12 Almost immediately, the Alabama travesty exacerbated the split that the NAACP grant had opened in the
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in the inevitable conflict between labor and capital, Nelles’s studies for the Fund reconceived the injunction problem as a question of institutional design and social engineering. The law of labor and capital would distribute power and resources in society. There was no avoiding the law’s effects, no neutral place in
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile
by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek · 21 Oct 2025 · 330pp · 85,349 words
. The construction of the Interstate Highway System is the largest public works project in American history; it’s also one of the country’s largest social engineering experiments. In addition to creating the modern car-dependent suburb, it displaced an estimated 475,000 households and more than a million people during the
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words
-Optimist Manifesto,” in which he wrote, “Our enemy is the ivory tower, the know-it-all credentialed expert worldview, indulging in abstract theories, luxury beliefs, social engineering, disconnected from the real world, delusional, unelected, and unaccountable—playing God with everyone else’s lives, with total insulation from the consequences.” Andreessen didn’t
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
by Paul Kingsnorth · 23 Sep 2025 · 388pp · 110,920 words
, in turn, would allow an insulated intra-elite ‘culture war’ to obscure the reality of growing social division and decline driven by elite experiments in social engineering. ‘It is not just that the masses have lost interest in revolution’, claimed Lasch. ‘Their political instincts are demonstrably more conservative than those of their
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source of stability in a turbulent world, resist experiments with “alternative lifestyles,” and harbor deep reservations about affirmative action and other experiments in large-scale social engineering.’[13] In this short paragraph, Lasch predicted the rise of twenty-first century Western populism long before it happened. But he also went on to
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assembly after the revolution. As we have already seen, that revolution was a product of social elites who were engaged in a project of utopian social engineering, often against the will of the peasantry they claimed to speak for. Despite much self-mythologising in the ensuing centuries, and despite occasional and sporadic
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(Schumacher), 97, 99 smartphones, 111–12, 304 control and, 302 at Mount Athos, 245–46 Snyder, Gary, 314 social cohesion, 202 social contract, 285–86 social engineering, 151 socialism, 15–16, 109, 145, 154, 198, 276 social justice, 41 social media, 159, 163 society, 119 freedom from, 129 growth relation to, 91
Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business
by David G. W. Birch and Victoria Richardson · 28 Apr 2024 · 249pp · 74,201 words
out as interesting about this hack: the root cause of it, which is basically about identity; and the bail out. The compromise was down to social engineering and a fake job offer by a fake company who approached a senior Sky Mavis engineer through LinkedIn. The fake offer was delivered in the
The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century
by Geert Mak · 27 Oct 2021 · 722pp · 223,701 words
relatively easily, while at the same time Danes with good prospects are enticed in by all manner of means. It is a crude form of social engineering that human rights organizations, the UN among them, have fiercely protested. The Danish government stuck to its guns for years, however. It has recently agreed
The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities
by Justin Schuh · 20 Nov 2006 · 2,054pp · 359,149 words
by automated and manual processes that surround the system. Operational vulnerabilities can even include certain types of attacks on users of the system, such as social engineering and theft. These issues occur in the SDLC operation and maintenance phase, although they have some overlap into the integration and testing phase. Going back
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the time of this writing, it’s available at www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/. * * * Homographic Attacks Homographic attacks are primarily useful as a form of social engineering; Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Alex Gontmakher originally described them in “The Homographic Attack” published in the February 2002 edition of Communications of the ACM. These attacks
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
by P. W. Singer and August Cole · 28 Jun 2015 · 537pp · 149,628 words
lost in the fog of war and the Bay. That speech had gone over well; no doubt one of his public affairs team’s own social-engineering algorithms had come up with it. Jamie took a last sip of coffee and slowly dumped the rest out, watching it spatter the ground at
NeoAddix
by Jon Courtenay Grimwood · 16 Jan 1997 · 338pp · 92,385 words
, as a hacker Alex was kinderclass, as a witness chaser he was magic. He’d gone after her like he’d go after any witness, social engineering his way through one weak link after another - closing in on her. He knew which county, he knew which city. Soon enough it would be
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