- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.
- Air Travel
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- Nov 07, 2020
A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.
- Data
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.
- Countryside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cash-strapped cities in nations from Argentina to Albania have begun to turn over their municipal water systems to Big Water, often under lease arrangements that can continue in force for decades.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many wells have been dug in Changzhou that its groundwater has been over-exploited, and the local ground level has sunk by two feet. The city has officially banned new wells and mandated the installation of pollution controls, but China's endemic corruption ensures that neither measure has much meaning.
- Clean Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than forcing local factories to clean up after themselves, Changzhou decided to outsource the job of managing its water supply to a French company named Veolia - one of a handful of corporate giants now scrambling to take over city water systems around the planet, especially in the often polluted and water-short developing world.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big Water makes an argument straight out of Economics 101. The best way to deliver water to people's homes efficiently, the water barons argue, is to put the process in the hands of the market. If water is scarce, then raise the price - let the law of supply and demand take over!
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020