Like Henriette Avram, the heroes of "This Book Is Overdue" are resolutely high-tech, engaged in "activist and visionary forms of library work".
And there has been a rash of exits of machine learning firms to big tech giants engaged in the war for AI talent.
Pioneered in Canada, but now used in cities around the world, the first safety audits were decidedly low tech: They engaged women in "mapping out" their surroundings, with a pencil and paper checklist.
A tech-savvy, engaged community spanning 2 million individuals in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill is helping to reintroduce the Research Triangle Park's brand to a whole new generation".
When tech companies engage in legal squabbles about who gets to use our everyday words, what are ordinary speakers of the language to make of it all?
At the heart of the tension over how tech can engage with the Black Lives Matter movement are social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter, which have been fundamental to the movement by facilitating the dissemination of viral videos of police shootings, live documentation of protests and the coordination of movement organizing.
The program donates or discounts Twilio products and helps nonprofits make use of the tech to "engage their audience, expand their reach and focus on making a real change in the world," according to the initiative's site.
While 2014 was not a good year when it came to tech companies engaging in politics, these companies both have the most to lose with increasing regulation and fragmentation of the web and also the most users (i.e. voters where that matters) by which to affect change.
Today's high tech warfare engages American soldiers to guide airborne drones to their remote target.
Some are specialized, such as credits for tech companies engaging in research and development and for companies working low-income communities.
The FBI ordered Apple to unlock an iPhone used by Syed Farook, but the tech giant has engaged in a public battle to defy the warrant.
