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Reading Time: 7 minutes Tesla Model 3 Survey: What Owners Think About the Electric Car – interesting read, Toyota and VW Group will eat them alive as their electric car programme take off. I am not going into the dumb nature of Li-ion versus hydrogen powered vehicles… ‘Caveat Emptor:’ State Dept. Mocks Russian, PRC Weapon Sales In ‘Buy American’ … Read moreICYMI | 万一你错过了| 당신이 그것을 놓친 경우에 대비해서
Reading Time: < 1 minute Google goes back to the future with its paper phone experiment. Its an interesting commentary on the questionable benefit provided by smartphones. Google seems to be partly convicted. One-legged man’s Hallowe’en costume is the Pixar table lamp. General Magic was a much storied, but ultimately failed technology company. This documentary about it looks epic on … Read moreThings that made my day this week
Reading Time: < 1 minute New York public transport gets into the spirit of Hallowe’en – MTA Making Subway Scarier Than Usual This Month – Gothamist Great profile on the director of The Host and Parasite: Bong Joon-ho profile: How the Parasite director is weaponizing the blockbuster. Interesting public safety campaign – How the patron saint of chimney sweeps is … Read moreThings that made my day this week
Reading Time: < 1 minute Interesting session with Marginal Revolution’s Tyler Cowen at the OECD. Cowen addresses the challenge of Huawei and big tech. Cowen is pro big business, anti-small business and pro big tech. His discussion in terms of big technology he has an interesting position, though not something I would agree with. He is very concerned about biometric … Read moreI like: Tyler Cowen on digital economy
Reading Time: 6 minutes This is a bumper issue of my regular(ish) posts of interesting stuff around the web Apple’s Cook meets China regulator after pulling Hong Kong app – Reuters – Quisling Tim Cook takes more orders from China The Nike of China Wants to Go Global and Has Xi in Its Corner – Bloomberg – Anta seems … Read moreICYMI | 万一你错过了| 당신이 그것을 놓친 경우에 대비해서