Further to my last Bill:
The Xuexi Qiangguo “Study the Great Nation” app is now the most downloaded item on Apple’s App Store in China(More than WeChat and TikTok):
https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-socia...inping-thought
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...to-your-pocket
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8859511.html
Seems like Mao’s Little Red Book(published by PLA General Political Department) mashed up with behavioural economics “nudging”, likely observed by tireless evolving AI/ML Google Analytics-like tools of State Security.
Probably more George Orwell’s “1984” than Shoshana Zuboff’s “Age of Surveillance Capitalism”.
I tend to think our potential digital future is a blend of the two, with the spoils going to the network/platform that iterates the best value proposition for both citizen “users” and government “enterprise/admins”
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