Description: Further DetailsTitle: Blockchain Chicken FarmCondition: NewSubtitle: And Other Stories of Tech in China's CountrysideISBN-10: 0374538662EAN: 9780374538668ISBN: 9780374538668Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/01/2020Description: In 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 globalisation 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 globalisation, technology, agriculture, and commerce in unprecedented fashion. Accompanied by humorous “Sinofuturist” recipes that frame meals as they transform under new technology, Blockchain Chicken Farm is an original and probing look into innovation, connectivity, and collaboration in the digitised rural world.FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 191mmItem Length: 128mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 186gAuthor: Xiaowei WangGenre: Technology & EngineeringBook Series: FSG Originals x LogicTopic: Social Sciences, Science Nature & Math, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Blockchain Chicken Farm
Title: Blockchain Chicken Farm
Subtitle: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
ISBN-10: 0374538662
EAN: 9780374538668
ISBN: 9780374538668
Release Date: 11/01/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: FSG Originals x Logic
Book Title: Blockchain Chicken Farm : and Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2020
Topic: Social Aspects, Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy, Commerce, History, Sociology / Rural
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 6.6 Oz
Author: Xiaowei Wang
Item Length: 7.5 in
Book Series: Fsg Originals X Logic Ser.
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
