The third industrial revolution
The third industrial revolutionThe digitisation of manufacturing will transform the way goods are made—and change the politics of jobs too THE first industrial revolution began in Britain in the late 18th century, with the mechanisation of the textile industry. Tasks previously done laboriously by hand in hundreds of weavers' cottages were brought together in a single cotton mill, and the factory
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Seeing red
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What is the Chinese language?
By R.L.G. | NEW YORK I HAVE exercised Chinese commenters with a few posts that were seen as either simplistic or biased. So let me offer two competing visions of Chinese that help explain what the two sides disagree on. These are archetypes which few partisans may agree with every word of. But they are the basic poles of thinking about Chinese, I think. I submit them for the good of commenters, wh
Little red card
Little red cardThe telling reasons why, at least in football, China is unlikely to rule the world in the near future The Buddha tells the people he can fulfil only one of their wishes. Someone asks: “Could you lower the price of property in China so that people can afford it?” Seeing the Buddha frown in silence, the person makes another wish: “Could you make the Chinese football team qualify for a
How Luther went viral
How Luther went viralFive centuries before Facebook and the Arab spring, social media helped bring about the Reformation IT IS a familiar-sounding tale: after decades of simmering discontent a new form of media gives opponents of an authoritarian regime a way to express their views, register their solidarity and co-ordinate their actions. The protesters' message spreads virally through social netw
The future of newspapers | Who killed the newspaper? | Economist.com
Who killed the newspaper?The most useful bit of the media is disappearing. A cause for concern, but not for panic “A GOOD newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself,” mused Arthur Miller in 1961. A decade later, two reporters from the Washington Post wrote a series of articles that brought down President Nixon and the status of print journalism soared. At their best, newspapers hold gover
Japan | Meet the new salaryman | Economist.com
Meet the new salarymanA need to attract more young people, women and the elderly will mean deep changes at companies, and even to the way cities look THE salaryman, the loyal, lifetime drone of big corporations and once the symbol of Japan's post-war miracle, has had a tough time in the post-bubble years. If he has not been sacked, or had his company go under, he has been asked to take cuts in pay
A library at your fingertips
A library at your fingertipsBig technology companies have pledged to make many thousands of books available online. The commercial prospects look shaky, but this new front in the battle between the world’s leading internet portals will yield a valuable resource for all A FEW years ago, at the height of the dotcom boom, it was widely assumed that a publishing revolution, in which the printed word w
Voting for a new Japan
Voting for a new JapanJapan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party looks set to win this weekend’s election. Many of those who vote for the party will do so hoping that the prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, uses the opportunity to purge the LDP of recalcitrants and push through long-delayed reforms AP IT IS an election without precedent in many ways, so the outcome on Sunday September 11th could yet d
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