Blockchain chicken farm : and other stories of tech in China's countryside / Xiaowei Wang.

By:

Wang, Xiaowei, 1986-

Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.Edition: First editionDescription: 248 pages ; 19 cmISBN:

0374538662 (pbk.)
9780374538668 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

609.51/091734 23

LOC classification:

T55.77 .C6 W26 2020

Contents:

Ghosts in the machine -- On a blockchain chicken farm in the middle of nowhere -- When AI farms pigs -- Buffet life -- Made in China -- "No one can predict the future" -- Gone shopping in the mountain stronghold -- Welcome to my pearl party.

Summary: "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." --publisher's website.

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Includes bibliographical references (page 241-246)

"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." --publisher's website.