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2021年经济学人 资本退位,打工人的黄金时代正在到来(3)
The long-term future of work has changed for the better this year because it has become more digitised. Remote working is easing the bottleneck of expensive housing in thriving cities. Home-workers report higher levels of happiness and productivity.
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2021年经济学人 资本退位,打工人的黄金时代正在到来(4)
Productivity can also be unleashed by broadening access to opportunities. Many rich-world labour markets are divided between the high- and low-skilled. That is tolerable so long as anyone can climb the ladder. Governments have a responsibility to ens
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2021年经济学人 巴托比职场专栏--高管如何适应退休后生活(1)
Business 商业版块 Bartleby 巴托比职场专栏 Stepping down is hard to do 退休很难 Adjusting to life after the C-suite 适应不再是高管的生活 There comes a time when even the most glittering career must come to an end. Choosing the
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2021年经济学人 巴托比职场专栏--高管如何适应退休后生活(2)
Nor will home life necessarily be easy. Spouses and children have often become used to coping without a parent who has worked long hours. They have built their own networks of friends and activities. They may find it hard to adjust to the presence of
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2021年经济学人 手机大数据窥探隐私,苹果新规来帮忙(1)
Business 商业版块 Digital advertising 数字广告 Flying blind 两眼一摸黑 Apples privacy rules force marketers to find new ways to target ads 苹果的隐私规则迫使营销商在精准投放广告上另谋出路 Online shoppers often fee
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2021年经济学人 手机大数据窥探隐私,苹果新规来帮忙(2)
Stronger privacy protections may make their ads less effective. In 2018 the EU imposed its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Americas most-populous state introduced the California Consumer Privacy Act. Both made it harder to harvest users
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2021年经济学人 手机大数据窥探隐私,苹果新规来帮忙(3)
For Facebook, which knows more about its users interests than about their shopping needs, Apples changes are more worrying. In August it warned they might reduce revenues at its Audience Network, through which it sells ads to other apps, by as much a
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2021年经济学人 手机大数据窥探隐私,苹果新规来帮忙(4)
The inability to share data is forcing advertisers to come up with new ruses. One is to bypass rules banning data transfers between ad-tech companies by consolidating. In February AppLovin, a mobile-software firm, acquired Adjust, which provides mobi
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2021年经济学人 从科幻走向现实的"空中航母"呼之欲出(3)
To that end, costs must be kept low. The defence department plans to pay less than $800,000 a pop for Gremlins, though that would be for an order of 1,000 of them. So, if a couple were shot down in an operation, that's okay, it really doesn't matter,
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2021年经济学人 从科幻走向现实的"空中航母"呼之欲出(4)
The Gremlin-mothership arrangement is distinguished by its scale. But several smaller versions of the underlying idea are also in development. One is being put together by General Atomics, the maker of Predator drones. Predators are showing their age
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2021年经济学人 菲利普亲王-为爱放弃王位的希腊王子(1)
Obituary 讣告 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 菲利普亲王,爱丁堡公爵 Pledge of a lifetime 一生的誓言 Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, died on April 9th, aged 99 菲利普亲王,女王伊丽莎白二世的丈夫,于
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2021年经济学人 菲利普亲王-为爱放弃王位的希腊王子(2)
His German family wanted him brought up in Germany, and sent him to the school they had founded at Schloss Salem in Baden-Wurttemberg. But Hitlers rise to power put paid to that. Philip followed the Jewish headmaster, Kurt Hahn, to Scotland, where he
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2021年经济学人 菲利普亲王-为爱放弃王位的希腊王子(3)
Later, his staff often described him as bracing. 后来,他的工作人员经常形容他令人振奋。 When asked by a (female) journalist about rumours of a colourful private life in the 1960s, 当一名(女)记者问及有关他上世纪60年代丰
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2021年经济学人 菲利普亲王-为爱放弃王位的希腊王子(4)
In a corner were the biographies that had been written about him. And on a table by a window stood an array of family photographs in black and white. Lots of relatives, but no children, other than a big, misty colour portrait of the doughty Princess
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2021年经济学人 互联网是有记忆的,言论不当总要买单(1)
Books arts 文艺板块 Johnson 约翰逊专栏 The memory hole 忘怀洞 Tweets feel like conversation but are judgedand punishedlike writing 推文感觉像是口语对话,但却要像书面用语一样接受评判和惩罚 Things were looking ro