The People's Republic of The Future

I had heard about Shenzhen for some years and then ran across this video and it absolutely blew me away. ▶ this 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.

Here is a list of 20 documentaries I have come to love and return to when I come across them. There is no specific order to them. Enjoy! The * next to the number indicates the last 4 years. If you have seen one listed that you'd like to share what you think about please leave a comment with this structure [# in the list ] Comment... . i.e. [1] Loved learning about Noyce. What a guy. 1. Silicon Valley: Where the Future | PBS: American Experience [1:23:19] [2013] History of the how Silicon Valley came to be. William Shockley. Robert Noyce. Fairchild Semiconductor, The Traitorous Eight. Homepage: link Kanopy: link Where to Watch: link 2. Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware | Wired UK: Future Cities [1:07:50] [2016] the evolution of “Shanzhai” – or copycat manufacturing – has transformed traditional models of business, distribution and innovation, and asks what the rest of the world can learn from this so-called “Silicon Valley of hardware". Youtube: link *2.1. The People's Republic of The Future | Bloomberg: Hello World [30:10] [2019] Shenzhen, tech-fueled entrepreneurs try to navigate an authoritarian regime. Youtube: ▶ this video 3. The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard | TPB AFK [1:22:07] [2013] The history of the Pirate Bay. Torrenting. Legal. Privacy. Homepage: link Youtube: link Where to Watch: link 4. Can’t Get You Out of My Head | BBC [6 Part] [2021] Adam Curtis takes you on "An Emotional history of how we got to this place." Economics. History. Power. Psycholo

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. ▶ this 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: ▶ this video

Interesting, slightly credible claim they got caught jaywalking through facial recognition and had their account automatically deducted with a fine. They are unsure how - ▶ this video