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Bill Fulkerson

25 Days That Changed the World: How Covid-19 Slipped China's Grasp - 0 views

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COVID-19 pandemic science China

shared by Bill Fulkerson on 01 Jan 21 - No Cached
  • Bill Fulkerson on 01 Jan 21
     
    Beijing acted against the coronavirus with stunning force, as its official narratives recount. But not before a political logjam had allowed a local outbreak to kindle a global pandemic.
Bill Fulkerson

The eruption that helped to destroy one of China's great dynasties : Research Highlights - 0 views

www.nature.com/...d41586-020-02467-2

eruption china

shared by Bill Fulkerson on 10 Sep 20 - No Cached
  • Bill Fulkerson on 10 Sep 20
     
    The collapse of China's prosperous Ming dynasty, one of the most stable in Chinese history, has been attributed, in part, to the 1641 eruption of a volcano thousands of kilometres from the imperial capital in Beijing.
Steve Bosserman

'Forget the Facebook leak': China is mining data directly from workers' brains on an in... - 0 views

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employees china brain-reading data mining surveillance

shared by Steve Bosserman on 01 May 18 - No Cached
  • The technology is in widespread use around the world but China has applied it on an unprecedented scale in factories, public transport, state-owned companies and the military to increase the competitiveness of its manufacturing industry and to maintain social stability.
  • Jin said that at present China’s brain-reading technology was on a par with that in the West but China was the only country where there had been reports of massive use of the technology in the workplace.
  • With improved speed and sensitivity, the device could even become a “mental keyboard” allowing the user to control a computer or mobile phone with their mind.
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  • Qiao Zhian, professor of management psychology at Beijing Normal University, said that while the devices could make businesses more competitive the technology could also be abused by companies to control minds and infringe privacy, raising the spectre of “thought police”.
  • “There is no law or regulation to limit the use of this kind of equipment in China. The employer may have a strong incentive to use the technology for higher profit, and the employees are usually in too weak a position to say no,” he said.
  • Lawmakers should act now to limit the use of emotion surveillance and give workers more bargaining power to protect their interests, Qiao said. “The human mind should not be exploited for profit,” he said.
Bill Fulkerson

Asia's Future Beyond U.S.-China Competition - The Day After - Carnegie Endowment for In... - 0 views

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future usa asia china

shared by Bill Fulkerson on 09 Oct 20 - No Cached
  • Bill Fulkerson on 09 Oct 20
     
    Beijing and Washington are competing to set Asia's rules, norms, and standards. But other countries in the region are increasingly choosing to shape its future themselves.
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