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Written by Peter Li-Chang Kuo ( Chinese ) Japanese lawmakers once brought up how, during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, they were knocked flat because they lacked a Lee Teng-Hui. At that time, " Mother of E-commerce " Linda Din's master's thesis was " Christian Faith and Democratic Practice of Mr. Lee Teng-Hui " —abbreviated as " The Lee Book ." So we compiled the thesis into a book and sent it to them, but it seems like a wasted effort. Fig 1: "The Lee Book" by Linda Din The Lee Book is the first — and likely the only book worldwide — to deeply analyze President Lee's " governing philosophy " through his " faith ." Perhaps only a religious zealot like Linda Din could personally interview the erudite former President Lee, with the two of them having endless conversations. Former President Lee was also curious why Linda Din's invention, TES, was called the " Golden Net ." Fig 2: Linda Din r...

Written by Peter Li-Chang Kuo ( Chinese ) Today, everyone talks about “ Artificial Intelligence ” (AI). What few people realize is that there was once a real opportunity of Mattel — over 30 years ago — for an “ AI Barbie ” to emerge. Fig 1: Barbie Doll in 1984 In the early 1980s, Mattel internally questioned whether Barbie could still be saved. The company attempted to pivot into remote-controlled toys in Hong Kong , but the effort failed. By chance, I was hired as a “ Specialist ” — not to save Barbie, but to confirm the trend of decline. However, on my very first day at “ MLT ” (Mattel Ltd. Taiwan), I redesigned a critical flaw: replacing the original three-piece leg armature — time-consuming, labor-intensive, and highly inhumane to assemble — with a simplified " Two-piece Leg Armature " design. This change eliminated cumbersome manual assembly, reduced defect rates, and I also freely provided a " Sliding-based Processing Machine " originally used for ...