Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

by Xiaowei Wang

I hope that this book brings you to parts of China that you might never visit, takes you beyond a map of abstractions, a flat map made by metronormativity.

Censorship is not made explicit; you just censor yourself. No one knows the consequences of critique, but no one wants to find out.

blockchain has yet to answer the question: If it takes power away from a central authority, can it truly put power back in the hands of the people, and not just a select group of people?

The truth is, we all want some kind of utopia, even if utopia is, by definition, not a place. We want a way for things to get better, to get perfect.

I see someone who strongly believes he has the right to a future, a future that is not steeped in precariousness,