“All the technologies I describe in my novel already exist,” she said. “Automised job appraisals, AI-generated scripts, micro-housing, the coupling of surveillance and insurance, the burning council estates: it’s all already here. You just have to look at it and join the dots.”

a hound that runs counter

In Qian county, Shaanxi-which until 1982 was classified as a chronically poor county - the guidelines laid down for commune leaders by county officials are as follows:…Thus in Team No. 3, Zhang Jia Bu Brigade, Qian Ling Commune of Qian county, there is 2.19 mou of collective land per head and we found that this land is indeed allocated on a 50-50 basis.

Those spiders with a simple bulb insert most of this; those with a complex palp insert only the embolus, which in some species is very long […]