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.
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