The global internet is splitting in two. One side, championed in China, is a digital landscape where mobile payments have replaced cash. Smartphones are the devices that matter, and users can shop, chat, bank and surf the web with one app. The downsides: The government reigns absolute, and it is watching—you may have to communicate with friends in code. And don’t expect to access Google or Facebook.
Read More...Harold Nicolson once remarked of the critic Hugh Trevor-Roper, “among the strings of his lute there is a wire of hate which is apt to twang suddenly with the rasp of a banjo.” Trevor-Roper supposedly once met a reviewee at a conference, found that he liked him—and decided not to go to conferences anymore.
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