Mythbusting China’s Tech Landscape with President & Head of Strategy at RAPP China, Blake Stone-Banks #6

China’s technological progression has been nothing short of meteoric in recent decades, integrating systems long before we’re ready to do so in the West. But how well founded are our fears? Is China’s collective embrace of revolutionary technology being used and abused, or is our trepidation holding us back?

The perfect man to answer these questions is one Blake Stone-Banks, who’s been living in Beijing since 2006 and seen how life in the capital has changed - and where our expectations and their reality differ.

We take a deep dive into China’s use of facial recognition, their openness to change, the prevalence of their WeChat platform, and whether their Social Credit system really lives up to the scepticism we’ve had since the Black Mirror episode that warned us against such a system...

This episode of Disconnected covers:

China’s rapidly growing use of technologyThe prevalence of WeChat as an almost-universal platformHow facial recognition tech has impacted life in ChinaDrawing a distinction between personal and business platformsThe reality of China’s Social Credit System, and how it compares to THAT Black Mirror episode

Links and references at: https://disconnectedpodcast.com/