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  • Bitcoin: The Nature of Money

    Bitcoin: The Nature of Money

    Bitcoin: The Nature of Money
    Web3 & Bitcoin

    Bitcoin: The Nature of Money

    Recently Bitcoin has risen and fallen wildly, and a great deal of discussion has sprung up as well. Of course there are those who strongly support it and those who predict its doom; in any case, this peculiar electronic currency has officially entered public view. In fact, I heard about this thing a few years ago, and at the time I also thought about joining the ranks of the “miners.” Unfortunately I was still too wary of trouble to pursue it in depth. More crucially, my insights in media philosophy were not yet mature enough then, so I failed to seize the opportunity. And these past few days, gritting my…

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  • On Page Charges

    Life & Notes

    On Page Charges

    Submission up to now, although quite a few short pieces and book reviews have been published, the situation with my properly serious academic papers is still rather worrying. The key, I suppose, is that I have simply not been conscientious enough; I only became energetically “sending many manuscripts to many journals” at a few particular points in time, and for most of the time I basically left things to fend for themselves. But two of my papers were both rejected after being accepted because of the issue of page charges, and this is a situation worth explaining. Perhaps you would guess that I refused to pay the page charges out…

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  • On NetEase Mail, Cookies, and Privacy in the Internet Age

    AI & the Future of Technology

    On NetEase Mail, Cookies, and Privacy in the Internet Age

    (It’s been a long time since I last wrote an essay; this is a bit messy, but I’ll gradually restore the blog update frequency in the near future~) The recent 315 gala seems to have taken a heavy toll on many IT companies that did not advertise properly on CCTV. Apple has always been arrogant; you can criticize it for arrogance all you want, but this time NetEase has probably really fallen into trouble. As for the news media’s habit of reporting some negative information in a kind of campaign-style, entertainmentized, highly selective and biased manner, that behavior is contemptible. But in general I do not object to this kind…

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  • The History of Work

    AI & the Future of Technology

    The History of Work

    Richard Donkin: The History of Work, translated by Xie Zhongwei, Electronic Industry Press, 2011. Generally speaking, a title like “The History of XX” is always interesting, especially when that “XX” looks all the more dull and ordinary; its history is often all the more interesting. For history tells us that anything we have long taken for granted and found unremarkable has its own origins and development; by tracing history we can let our imagination unfold: is it necessary? Is it inevitable? In what other forms might it still take place? Recently, I happened upon this The History of Work, and felt it was quite good. Along with Technical Elements, Electronic…

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  • Chopsticks and Internet Addiction

    AI & the Future of Technology

    Chopsticks and Internet Addiction

    A few days ago I ate two Western meals, using knife and fork, and thinking of chopsticks; I always felt that something was missing, and I was also very unaccustomed to it. So, am I addicted to chopsticks? Is a life in which one depends on chopsticks every day a kind of obsession? This way of putting it seems a bit absurd; I’m afraid no one would seriously reflect on a symptom like “chopstick addiction.” Besides chopsticks, there are things like showers, flush toilets, and so on: many things in our lives on which we depend even more, and without which we feel uncomfortable all over. They are fully embedded…

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  • Knowledge Is Connection

    AI & the Future of Technology

    Knowledge Is Connection

    Earlier I spoke of “phenomenological education,” which also made me recall the as-yet-unwritten essay I mentioned last year, “Knowledge Is Linkage.” Why is it that I, someone just about to begin a PhD dissertation on “media ontology,” “ have suddenly, and quite off the beaten track, decided to take up “education”? Have I changed direction? Of course not. My turn toward educational questions is on the one hand driven by my interest in Neil Postman (who is in essence an educational theorist), and on the other hand it is also a question I have long cared about. In fact, the question of education involves the whole range of philosophy, from…

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  • Why Place Ads

    Site Matters

    Why Place Ads

    Has everyone noticed that “advertisements” have appeared in the blog’s sidebar? I added them in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep because my rhinitis flared up~ Of course, putting up ads was also something I had long had in mind. Why put up ads? First of all, of course, ads can make money. Right now, to keep this blog running, with hosting fees and domain fees, I spend about 300 yuan a year. Although I don’t really care about money, after all I’m only spending my parents’ money, so if I can make up a little of it, that’s always good. But judging from this blog’s current…

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  • Where Is the Journal Conservative? — A Brief Note on Submitting a Manuscript

    Life & Notes

    Where Is the Journal Conservative? — A Brief Note on Submitting a Manuscript

    A few days ago, from the end of February into the beginning of March, I fired off 12 articles to 9 core journals in one go, including a few book reviews and some papers written during my undergraduate years. At first I submitted a few newer, more important papers, but I didn’t bother to revise the format properly. Later I gradually sent out some older papers; those I did properly reformat, though I didn’t make many textual revisions. In that sense, my sincerity in submitting was still not quite sufficient, after all, at heart I remain rather reluctant about the whole business of submitting articles. But if I want to…

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  • Why Do I Say Nokia Will Become the Next Kodak

    AI & the Future of Technology

    Why Do I Say Nokia Will Become the Next Kodak

    Kodak has filed for bankruptcy protection. Although it has not yet truly gone bankrupt and still hopes to rise again, the chances are probably slim. Nokia’s situation is in some ways similar to Kodak’s. Both were old firms that dominated the market for a century, and both were undone by the very new technologies they themselves helped develop, weighed down by the burden of their own success. Kodak did not fail to try to adapt to the new trend, but it did not succeed; Nokia is now placing its bet on Windows Phone, hoping to make a desperate comeback with Microsoft’s support. Is there any chance that, by self-amputating all…

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  • “Internet Addiction” Stems from a Craving for the “Real World”

    AI & the Future of Technology

    “Internet Addiction” Stems from a Craving for the “Real World”

    The previous paragraph was about preparing my doctoral proposal, and I also couldn’t help thinking about the topics of two fellow students in my cohort—one working on the environment, the other on the network. In fact, both are academic directions I had envisioned in previous years, and I will eventually return to these two themes as well, so looking at my two fellow students’ topics, I couldn’t help feeling a bit covetous and eager. 5ningning wants to do a phenomenological study of the network, and Senior Brother Shengli suggested that we might as well first discuss the issue of “internet addiction.” I took that to heart too, and have had…

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