Blockchain Chicken Farm

China has a rural vitalization plan. To bridge the socio-economic divide and to stop/reverse the rural flight. Alibaba & co are active participants in transforming farmers into tech-savvy and successful entrepreneurs, as a healthy agricultural society will have money to spend on online shopping. Wang goes on several trips to the Chinese countryside to learn about the application of blockchain technology to counter food-safety scandals, the use of drones to map hard-to-access farmland, and the use of AI-software to track the health of pigs at pig farms. They visit Taobao villages (whole rural villages dedicated to producing/selling on e-commerce platforms) and local police departments tracking ‘urban villages' (low-income neighborhoods on the outskirts of big cities, filled with the migrants workers).

Super fascinating book, not just full of stories about China's collide of technology and countryside, but also of thought-provoking musings on the evolution of technology and where it takes us.