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Geoffrey Cain

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Covers:  north korea, pop culture, south korea, economics, southeast asia, asia, politics, korea, technology, health, myanmar, thailand, indonesia, cambodia, vietnam, china
Author: Steve Jobs in Exile | Samsung Rising | The Perfect Police State. @Spectator columnist. Covering tech, business, and reinvention. geoffreycain.substack.com

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Geoffrey Cain’s Biography

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As GlobalPost's senior correspondent in Seoul, I cover mainly North Korea with a spattering of pieces on Japan and South Korea.

Previously, I contributed articles on Asia to a dozen magazines and newspapers, including TIME, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, Far Eastern Economic Review, Fast Company, Christian Science Monitor and others. Previous bases have included Cambodia and Vietnam.

I've also been interviewed on Southeast Asian politics for the New Yo…

Geoffrey Cain’s Journalist Portfolio

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The End of the Vietnamese Miracle - By Geoffrey Cain

The End of the Vietnamese Miracle - By Geoffrey Cain

HO CHI MINH CITY - In what was once one of Asia's most exciting emerging markets, Nguyen Van Nguyen sees only…

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What a Patent War Means for South Korea's Samsung

What a Patent War Means for South Korea's Samsung

In 1977, when South Korea was a poor but industrializing country, an American business consultant named Ira M…

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Asia's Latest Public Health Crisis? Dangerous Drivers

Asia's Latest Public Health Crisis? Dangerous Drivers

In a country once marked by genocide, even the battle-hardened police were aghast at last month's scene of ca…

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South Korean Cartoonists Cry Foul Over The Simpsons

South Korean Cartoonists Cry Foul Over The Simpsons

Sitting in his lively studio in western Seoul, veteran animator Nelson Shin is clearly proud of the fact that…

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Will Agent Orange Hurt the US-South Korea Military Alliance?

Will Agent Orange Hurt the US-South Korea Military Alliance?

For a town entangled in a national controversy, Waegwan's streets give off an eerie languor. Ask residents in…

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South Korea Cracks Down on Video Gaming Addiction

South Korea Cracks Down on Video Gaming Addiction

Ever since Yoon Hyuk-joo, a 16-year-old in Seoul, started playing the popular computer game StarCraft eight y…

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America’s Anthropic blackout won’t make the world safer

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By Geoffrey Cain
| The Spectator Australia Verified
For the first time, the United States government has switched off frontier artificial intelligence and forced the world to go without it. Two of the most capable AI systems ever built, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, went dark last week. Not just in China or Iran. A researcher in London, a developer in Tokyo, an entire company in Berlin, all cut off at once, all treated as equally dangerous.
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Il server che non andava spento: l’origine del World Wide Web

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By Geoffrey Cain
| Agenda Digitale Verified
Nel dicembre del 1990 il World Wide Web andò online per la prima volta, ospitato su un unico cubo nero di magnesio nel laboratorio di fisica più famoso d’Europa. Non fu il frutto di un grande programma di ricerca né di investimenti miliardari, ma di un problema pratico — la memoria istituzionale che si disperde — e di un computer fuori dal comune. La storia di come Tim Berners-Lee costruì l’architettura del web in pochi mesi è anche la storia di un’occasione che nessuno seppe riconoscere in tempo.
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NeXT chapter Il periodo in cui Steve Jobs non sapeva più cosa fare

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By Geoffrey Cain
| Linkiesta Verified
«Hai presente quando ti tirano un pugno nello stomaco e resti completamente senza fiato?», raccontò Steve a Newsweek nel 1985. «Devi rilassarti per ricominciare a respirare. È così che mi sono sentito per tutta l’estate.» Per tutta l’estate del 1985 Steve aveva cercato di rilassarsi e respirare. Erano sparite le frenetiche riunioni sui prodotti, le scadenze incessanti e le folle adoranti che fino ad allora erano state la sua vita.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yeah. What a pain.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Thomas Fowler, the British journalist in Vietnam from Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" (1955).

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

A short e-mail will do the trick, with a couple sentences on why this would be relevant to American readers interested in foreign news.