Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang Summary
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Explore how rural China embraces cutting-edge tech as Wang reveals blockchain-tracked chickens and e-commerce villages. Selected as a NYT Editors' Choice, this eye-opening journey shows how innovation thrives far from Silicon Valley, challenging everything you thought about the digital revolution.
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The Hidden Wires Connecting Our Smartphones to Rural China
Picture a remote Chinese village shrouded in darkness, crawling with tiny black worms. Standing there, you might ask: how did I end up here? The answer reveals something we rarely consider-every sleek device in our pockets, every cloud service we use, connects back to places like this. Rural China quietly produces the raw materials powering our digital lives, from cotton in our clothes to minerals in our computers. Yet we scroll through social media blissfully unaware of these invisible threads. This disconnect between our technological consumption and its rural origins sits at the heart of China's transformation, where ancient villages collide with blockchain, AI, and facial recognition-often with bewildering results. What happens when a country tries to modernize 40% of its population through apps and algorithms while that same population still remembers famine?
The Weight of History in a WeChat World
Blockchain Chickens and the Quest for Edible Food
When Algorithms Raise Your Bacon
The Drone Operator's Dream and the Gig Economy's Reality
From Isolation to Instagram: E-Commerce Transforms Rural Life
Finding Connection in a Disconnected World
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