Wednesday, January 02, 2008

The Dictatorship of Talent

Op-ed by David Brooks
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/opinion/04brooks.html?hp

According to Brooks, China is no longer a Communist society but a corpocracy ruled by an elite based on merit. The merit is based more on passing tests heavy on memorization than on creativity. Will it be able to move to an information society?

If CTRIP and others are an indication, probably. CTRIP is a successful Chinese online travel complany.