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How Chinese Apps Handled Covid-19
That type of data collection may rub many Americans the wrong way. They don’t want Big Brother or corporate America to know too much about what they’re up to. But people in China are more accepting of having their faces, voices, and shopping choices captured and digitized.
Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Adding fuel to this fire was an unprecedented wave of government support for innovation. Guo’s mission to build the Avenue of the Entrepreneurs was just the first trickle of what in 2014 turned into a tidal wave of official policies pushing technology entrepreneurship. Under the banner of “Mass Innovation and Mass Entrepreneurship,” Chinese mayors
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The pandemic showed us how tech companies profit immensely when we’re isolated and forced to spend more time staring at screens. The entire push to roll out headsets can’t be separated from that reality: they want us to always be looking at screens.