The digital war : how China's tech power shapes the future of AI, blockchain and cyberspace /
Winston Ma ; foreword by Anthony Scaramucci
- 1 online resource (xxxi, 378 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
China is the largest homogenous digital market on Earth: unified by language, culture, and mobile payments. Not only a consumer market of unrivaled size, it's also a vast and hyperactive innovation ecosystem for new technologies. And as China's digital economy moves from a consumer-focused phase to an enterprise-oriented one, Chinese companies are rushing to capitalize on ways the newer wave of tech - the Internet of Things, AI, blockchain, cloud computing, and data analytics (iABCD) - can unlock value for their businesses from non-traditional angles. In China's Data Economy, Winston Ma - investment professional, capital markets attorney, adjunct professor of digital economy, and bestselling author - details the profound global implications of this new direction, including how Chinese apps for services such as food delivery expand so quickly they surpass their U.S. models within a couple of years, and how the sheer scale and pace of Chinese innovation might lead to an AI arms race in which China and the U.S. vie aggressively for leadership