Blockchain Chicken Farm (FSG Originals x Logic)

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“A superb and empathetic information to the far corners of world capitalism.” –Jenny Odell, creator of The way to Do Nothing

From FSGO x Logic: tales about rural China, meals, and tech that reveal new truths concerning the globalized world

In Blockchain Rooster Farm, the technologist and author Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of expertise in rural China. Their discoveries drive them to problem the usual concept that rural tradition and persons are backward, conservative, and illiberal. As an alternative, they discover that rural China has not solely tailored to fast globalization however has truly innovated the expertise all of us use right now.

From pork farmers utilizing AI to supply the proper pig, to disruptive luxurious counterfeits and the political intersections of e-commerce villages, Wang unravels the ties between globalization, expertise, agriculture, and commerce in unprecedented style. Accompanied by humorous “Sinofuturist” recipes that body meals as they rework beneath new expertise, Blockchain Rooster Farm is an unique and probing look into innovation, connectivity, and collaboration within the digitized rural world.

FSG Originals × Logic dissects the best way expertise capabilities in on a regular basis lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, by no means actually had our greatest pursuits at coronary heart: latest threats to democracy, fact, privateness, and security, because of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have proven as a lot. We current an alternate story, one which delights in capturing expertise in all its contradictions and innovation, throughout borders and socioeconomic divisions, from historical past by means of the long run, past platitudes and PR hype, and previous doom and gloom. Our collaboration options 4 transient however provocative forays into the tech business’s many worlds, and aspires to incite contemporary conversations about expertise centered on nuanced and accessible explorations of the rising instruments that reorganize and redefine life right now.

Writer ‏ : ‎ FSG Grownup (October 13, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0374538662
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0374538668
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 kilos
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.05 x 1 x 7.45 inches