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«Antes decías «no importa el trabajo mientras que me paguen», ahora es «no me importa lo que me paguen mientras tenga trabajo», explicó el sociólogo Jorge Moruno en «La fábrica del emprendedor. Trabajo y política en la empresa mundo.» Antes, el trabajo se concebía como la manera de hacer algo por la sociedad: el trabajador creador de valor. Hoy, la […]

Technological ideas have spiritual consequences Archbishop Chaput: Science is reshaping our morality and social thought, when a genuinely sane culture would have it the other way around. By Charles J. Chaput Richard Weaver, the political philosopher, once wrote that “ideas have consequences.” And therein lies a tale. In June 2001, 20 years ago, a friend of mine and his wife attended a meeting in Washington, D.C. It was sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. It wa...

When Britain was in its second lockdown last November and the economy was contracting, China’s quarterly growth rate was hitting 6.5%. Figures last week showed that for the full year, the world’s second-largest economy could boast a growth rate of 2.3% while all its rivals in Europe and the Americas were going backwards. The trend could be traced back to Beijing’s efforts to tackle the virus – albeit after a period of denial – and keep infection...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. In a low-rise building overlooking a busy intersection in Beijing, Ji Rong Wen, a middle-aged scientist with thin-rimmed glasses and a mop of black hair, excitedly describes a project that could advance one of the hottest areas of artificial intelligence. Wen leads a team at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), a government-sponsored research lab that’s testing a powerful new language algorithm—something s...

Home America’s big China question America’s big China question Resetting relations will be near the top of President Biden’s inbox. Three new books point to the scale of the challenge ahead — and how to master it World Economy News 20 Jan 2021 • 7 min read Before his death in 1994, Richard Nixon reflected that his much-acclaimed diplomatic masterstroke — the opening of US relations with China — might have been a mistake. “We ma...

Nigel Inkster Review by Iain Macwhirter CHINA has “a heart of glass” according to Nigel Inkster. Despite commanding immense power, its government is prone to taking childish offence at real or imagined slights by foreigners. We saw an example recently when Chinese agents posted doctored images of an Australian soldier apparently murdering an Afghan child. The Australians had aroused Beijing’s wrath by calling for an independent UN investigation into the origins of Covid in Wuhan. Chin...