Lot of interesting insights in this report on the state of the Internet in China. The idea of the super app as the means to a walled garden is not too different from what Facebook, Google and Amazon are trying to accomplish in their own ways
Global technology companies are now replicating successful concepts from their Chinese counterparts, from the super app to social+ ecommerce to short video. China has pioneered the super app, a one-stop shop for services from shopping to ride hailing to money transfers to flight bookings.
Love this particular application of AI
Driving to work: AI-enabled cameras, installed near traffic lights, can adjust traffic lights in accordance with queuing vehicles and weather conditions. Certain road sections in Shenzhen have seen traffic flow improve by 8%, with the average vehicle speed surging by 15%.
And here is social credit at work as relates to the founder of Ofo - a billion dollar unicorn now close to bankruptcy
High-profile founder and CEO Dai Wei has
been placed on a blacklist of credit
defaulters, meaning he’s banned from
playing golf, flying business class and
staying in luxury hotels.
crossings as in traversals, contradictions, counterpoints of the heart though often not..
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