Tag: technology

  • Moving forward — and backward

    Moving forward — and backward

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    A century ago, my grandmother Mary Lienert knew firsthand about freedom of mobility — both the upside and the downside. The purchase of a family automobile confined, rather than freed this young Nebraska farm wife, who never learned to drive. Before then, my father Bob Lienert wrote in a 1979 essay, my grandmother’s principal mode of…

  • Forget the ‘Apple Car’ — check out the ‘Xiaomi Car’

    Forget the ‘Apple Car’ — check out the ‘Xiaomi Car’

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    You thought Apple’s official closure of its long-gestating car project was big news? Stay tuned to China for bigger mobility bombshells from that country’s burgeoning tech sector. Case in point: Telecoms giant Xiaomi’s announcement in late March of its first car, a stunning all-electric sedan dubbed SU7 that will be priced in the Chinese domestic…