Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary) | Future Cities | WIRED

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1. Supercomputers were the major export to China during the Clinton administration. Now China has the 5 most powerful supercomputers. They steal technology, like Apple's, and make rip-offs and sell those to their middle-class, screwing ours. Go go China! - it seems to be what the Americans want, after all they don't complain and tend to vote for their own demise. Good bye USA, I, for one, will miss you.
   As for the labour cost bullshit, I guess if your looking for 1000% profit instead of 850%. Factories in the US would be mostly automated using less labor and therefore realize the same savings. All you outsourcers are TRAITORS! Are you guys secretly hoping to set up the same Chinese system in the US & EU? Also, China is starting to outsource to other even cheaper countries.
2. 29:50 Not capitalism, description more closer to Distributism, a wonderful system
3. Bunch of copyright infringing, no standards, thieves.
4. Ding Dong Ding Dong in your face murica!!!
5. This is one of the rare positive representations of China in the western media.
6. 36:02 "The Key innovation is being able to do it at much lower cost" (talking about producing imitating technology cheaper). Maybe this is because of the money they didn't have to pay for past and future R&D? It's great to steal IP like the Chinese do and produce things cheaper, but the reason they can do it cheaper is because they're not actually inventing anything new but rather copying without the laborious R&D. Real innovative.
   
   Too much of this video is with subtitles, would have been better to at least have a voice over as it's a lot more difficult to passively watch this way.
7. Stealing is wrong
8. 1:05:37 this guy got it right. If china pay attention to detail and quality checking it will be perfect
9. If found myself in Shenzhen, I'd love to go around and create a custom-made (mix and match) smartphone and tablet. Buy a high-powered camera from one booth, buy a fast and large SSD from another stall, buy CPU/GPU from a third, then go to a fourth stall to put all the pieces together!
   Price would be a fifth of what you'd find in the Western world. Am I dreaming? Or is this something that many shoppers in Shenzhen do?
10. they try to compare UK which is tiny island to this great nation of China
11. Wow; what a city. This blows your mind.
12. They sacrificed salary for know-how! They bet on the right horse!!!
13. This is one of the most informative videos I have watched in ages. Thank you.
14. Are there any subtitles for this documentary please?
15. just realized how lucrative the tech industry looks.
16. Coming from Silicon Valley, It's nice to see the innovation happening internationally. While I won't agree with all the policies of the Chinese, I hope to see Shenzhen thrive. We need more Technological capitols around the world.
17. It depends what products you slate taking about. It's okay for consumer gadgets but for th stuff you need to rely on with your life or needs to last a long time IP and quality control and robustness are the biggest issues.
    Also data security for many clients would a huge issue.
18. I would love to learn more about various technologies now in china
19. the biggest problem with shanzai is no one is willing to innovate because the investment cost risk associated with developing new product or technologies, thus you end up with a lot of copycats
20. STOP to making and sending too many 3rd degree scrapp things to America , china K ?
    
    Keep your extra low class quality dangerous electronic devices just for yourself
    
    We dont need china bizness coz we got someone who gonna make AMERICA gr8 secured and respected again
    
    Were gonna have much better quality than any place in this planet in anythings COZ lot of the productions come back in america THANX TO TRUMP
    
    Understand or not china ?
    
    Happy trump 2017 years to all