Аннотация
Neal Stephenson
In the Kingdom of Mao Bell
A billion Chinese are using new technology to create the fastest growing economy on the planet. But while the information wants to be free, do they?
By Neal Stephenson (Published in Wired, February 1994)
In the inevitable rotating lounge atop the Shangri-La Hotel in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, a burly local businessman, wearing a synthetic polo shirt stretched so thin as to be semitransparent, takes in the view, some drinks, and selections from the dinner buffet.
He is accompanied by a lissome consort in a nice flowered print dress. Like any face-conscious Chinese businessman he carries a large boxy cellular phone. It's not that he can't afford a "prawn," as the newer flip phones are called. His model is prized because it stands up on a restaurant table, antenna in the fully erect position, flaunting the owner's connectivity - and in China, connections are everything.
The lounge spins disconcertin...
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