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In the Kingdom of Mao Bell (selected excerpts)
1994
1994
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terms
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lissome
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(adjective) easily flexed / (adjective) lithe / (adjective) nimble
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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 the term used by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution for the network of spies and informers that they spread across every village and neighborhood to snare enemies of the regime."
lol
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 the term used by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution for the network of spies and informers that they spread across every village and neighborhood to snare enemies of the regime."
lol
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[...] 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 WIRED, you probably do too. After all, how could any country whose power structure was based on controlling the flow of information survive in an era of direct-dial phones and ubiquitous fax machines?
[...] 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 WIRED, you probably do too. After all, how could any country whose power structure was based on controlling the flow of information survive in an era of direct-dial phones and ubiquitous fax machines?
zaibatsu
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(noun) a Japanese term referring to industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period until the end of World War II
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scad
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(noun) a large number or quantity
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He buys scads of high-bandwidth technology from the West
uncertain
6 years, 10 months ago
He buys scads of high-bandwidth technology from the West
uncertain
6 years, 10 months ago