num_pages: 256
description: A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA 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 frame meals as they transform under new technology Blockchain Chicken Farm is an original and probing look into innovation connectivity and collaboration in the digitized 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 techs 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 industrys 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: English
title: Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
publisher: FSG Adult