Blockchain Chicken Farm

With Xiaowei Wang's ‘Blockchain Chicken Farm,' it was one of these cases where the title intrigued me before knowing anything about it. It was quite interesting to read their main theme throughout these short essay-like stories that tie together, which is about the disconnections and connections between China's rural and urban tech sectors, mainly having to do with the interesting tech innovations that rural Chinese communities are doing, especially in agriculture. Topics include chickens being tracked through the blockchain, pigs being tracked with AI, pearls being harvested on livestreams, Chinese made goods' common stigmas, and even the future of technology that's being presented versus the future we would actually want. I liked the tie ins of Xiaowei's perspective, storytelling, and interviewing rather than the author just being black and white with the reporting. At points it was a bit difficult to follow everything since this isn't a topic that I'm at all knowledgeable in but it's an insightful read regardless.