The People's Republic of The Future
Bloomberg Originals2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022
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Bloomberg's Hello World episode in which Ashlee Vance visits Shenzhen, a hub of electronics manufacturing and cloning. He meets tech-fueled entrepreneurs working under an authoritarian regime.
HN recommends it for a view of Shenzhen's hardware ecosystem and as a documentary pick on China's tech scene.
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Interesting, slightly credible claim they got caught jaywalking through facial recognition and had their account automatically deducted with a fine. They are unsure how - [VIDEO]
> You'll never get away with an illegal U-turn ever again because the city will pull footage from peoples' internet-of-crap dashcams and the machine learning algorithms will comb the feeds and send fines directly to your mailbox with basically no human intervention. This is not a "in a few years" thing in some places: [VIDEO]
I had heard about Shenzhen for some years and then ran across this video and it absolutely blew me away. [VIDEO] Any other interesting companies / products from there you'd care to share? My dji mini 2 is one of my favorite gadgets I've ever bought.
Not trying to be rude, you need to be motivated enough to seek the answers yourself if its your truly important. If you want it badly you will find your answers. Here's a google sponsored inititive to help custom chip designers. [LINK] [LINK] Places like Shenzhen have a very good environment for this as well. [VIDEO]
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