Episode #59: When Information Became the New Empire
In this episode, Stewart Alsop III speaks with his father, Stewart Alsop II, about Hong Kong’s transformation since the 1997 handover and what it reveals about power, identity, and control in the information age. Together, they trace the shifting relationship between surveillance and sovereignty, explore how technology and data have become new instruments of hard power, and question what autonomy means in a world increasingly defined by networks and algorithms.
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00:00 The Alsops open with reflections on Hong Kong’s post-handover…
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