The "world's factory"

Known as the "world's factory," Dongguan is a leading production base for garments and gadgets. One-fifth of the world's smartphones are produced there, so are one-tenth of the world's shoes.

Is the world really better than ever? The headlines have never been worse. But an increasingly influential group of thinkers insists that humankind has never had it so good – and only our pessimism is holding us back

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/28/is-the-world-really-better-than-ever-the-new-optimists

Your thoughts don’t occur magically. Or automatically. They are the result of thousands of things that you have fed into the giant computer processing the world around you – your brain.

http://danwaldschmidt.com/2017/06/attitude/what-you-put-into-you/