a sampan is a small utility craft with an enclosed cabin
He buys scads of high-bandwidth technology from the West
If you thought zaibatsus were creepy
I was carrying an issue of WIRED [...] In one corner were three characters in Hanzi [...] I'd heard that they formed the Chinese word for "network."
Whenever I showed the magazine to a Chinese person they were baffled. "It means network, doesn't it?" I said [...]
"Yes," they said, "this is …
[...] modern information technology is to totalitarianism what crosses are to vampires. Skeptics might say it's just a coincidence that glasnost and perestroika came just after the photocopier, the fax, and the personal computer invaded Russia, but I thnk there's a connection, and if you read _WIRE…
