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The real hotbed of innovation (hint: it's not big cities) | Xiaowei R. Wang

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Tech innovation doesn't exist just in cities. As coda, writer and author of block chain chickenfog shawaywang explains,. Innovation also happens in rural areas such as judang or rural indiana. Onlined pearl parties are truly an internet enabled phenomena growing out of platforms like facebook and instogram. Rural china and ruel america are connected in unexpected ways. And these connections need to be more than ones of economic growth. There's whole pockets of commerce, whether on amazon or taubou, that are sourced from rural manufacturers in China.

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