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A special report on smart systems Your own private matrix Tracking your life on the web Nov 4th 2010 “MIRROR WORLDS” is only one of David Gelernter’s big ideas. Another is “lifestreams”—in essence, vast electronic diaries. “Every document you create and every document other people send you is stored in your lifestream,” he wrote in the mid-1990s together with Eric Freeman, who p..

Technology firms and Barack Obama End of the silicon honeymoon The love affair that technology firms had with America’s president is fading fast Oct 28th 2010 | SAN FRANCISCO PASSING through California on a mid-term campaign swing, Barack Obama made a point of stopping off to see Steve Jobs, the boss of Apple. He also hob-nobbed with executives from Google and other Silicon Valley companies. ..

France's protests Where the streets have no shame The protests against the government’s proposed pension reform turn ugly Oct 21st 2010 | Paris THE strike-weary French have grown used to a day’s worth of infrequent trains, absent teachers, undelivered post and unprinted newspapers. This is the routine whenever unions hold a one-day strike, as they did (again) on October 19th, against the rai..

THE strike-weary French have grown used to infrequent trains, absent teachers, undelivered post and unprinted newspapers. This is the routine whenever unions hold a one-day strike, as they are due to (again) on Tuesday October 19th, against the raising of the legal minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 years. But the petrol shortages that have spread across the country in recent days, prompting ..

CHINESE state media today announced the appointment of Xi Jinping, the country’s vice-president, to an important military post. His promotion cements Mr Xi’s status as the man who is expected to take over as China’s top leader in two years' time, when the current president, Hu Jintao, is due to step aside. Coming at the end of a four-day plenary meeting of the Communist Party’s Central ..

It is not quite true that China is rejecting Western values such as democracy. Rather, it is fighting over them Sep 30th 2010 | beijing ON JULY 19th the graduates of one of China’s leading business schools settled down in their academic finery to listen to a farewell address by Qin Xiao, the chairman of a state-owned bank. They little expected what they were about to hear. Instead of rallying ..

A dramatic rescue that became a worldwide spectacle showed Chile and its president (embracing a miner below) at their best Oct 14th 2010 | Santiago JUST after midnight on October 13th Florencio Ávalos emerged from the narrow capsule that lifted him 620 metres (2,030 feet) from the hot, damp depths of the San José mine into the chilly night air of Chile’s Atacama Desert. With the rest of th..

THE Nobel peace prize committee’s announcement on October 8th that they are giving the award to an imprisoned Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo, will infuriate Chinese leaders. It may well give extra ammunition to hardliners in China who argue that the West is bent on undermining Communist Party rule. This is the same faction that argues the party should take advantage of the West’s economic ma..

NORTH KOREA, a past master of pageantry, has staged a spectacular coming-out ceremony for its leader-in-waiting, Kim Jong Un, while making it clear that his ailing father Kim Jong Il, remains very much in command. The two men reviewed a parade of tanks, missiles and goose-stepping solders which cut through the centre of Pyongyang, providing citizens with a striking demonstration of the Kim dyna..

Sep 24th 2010, 7:32 by K.C. | TOKYO IN THE end, it came down to economic ties versus national pride. Business concerns prevailed—and so did China, in a sense. A bitter feud with Japan had been escalating since September 7th, when a Chinese fishing boat ran into a Japanese patrol in waters which both countries claim as sovereign territory. Today Japan released the boat's Chinese skipper, who h..