[Download Book] Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside - Xiaowei Wang
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corners of global capitalism." --Jenny Odell, author of How to Do NothingFrom FSGO x Logic: stories about rural China, food, and tech that reveal new truths about the globalized worldIn Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward, conservative, and intolerant. Instead, they find that rural China has not only adapted to rapid globalization but has actually innovated the technology we all use today.From pork farmers using AI to produce the perfect pig, to disruptive luxury counterfeits and the political intersections of e-commerce villages, Wang unravels the ties between globalization, technology, agriculture, and commerce in unprecedented fashion. Accompanied by humorous ?Sinofuturist? recipes that
Product details: Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
Author : Xiaowei Wang
Pages : 256 pages
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 0374538662
ISBN-13 : 9780374538668
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