COLLECTION · Series · 2016
Future Cities
A look inside one of the world’s biggest startup nations - Israel, and Shenzhen, looking at how and why the city has evolved so rapidly.
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Countries
China · Israel
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YouTube · Wired Video
Runtime
20 min/ep
Release
07/06/2016
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
4 episodes · 2016
We examine the unique manufacturing ecosystem that has emerged, gaining access to the world’s leading hardware-prototyping culture whilst challenging misconceptions from the west. The film looks at how the evolution of “Shanzhai” – or copycat manufacturing – has transformed traditional models of business, distribution and innovation, and asks what the rest…
Episode 1. Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware
2016-06-07 · 20 min
In this first episode we take a glimpse into Huaqiangbei, the city's vast market district, and talk Moore’s Law and its impact on software vs hardware development before visiting HAX, the only hardware accelerator of its kind in the…
Episode 2. Shenzhen: The Maker Movement
2016-06-14 · 20 min
In this second episode we take a look at how the Maker movement has been appropriated in a frenetic manufacturing hub like Shenzhen, before exploring how the city’s attitudes to open source hardware are so different to those of the West,…
Episode 3. Shenzhen: A New Breed of Intellectual Property
2016-06-21 · 20 min
In this third episode of our Future Cities strand, we explore how attitudes in Shenzhen about patents and intellectual property differ to those in the West. In particular, we look at how the evolution of “shanzhai” - or copycat…
Episode 4. Shenzhen: Reinventing 35 Years of Innovation
2016-06-28 · 20 min
In the final episode of our Future Cities strand, we examine Shenzhen’s so-called "Shanzhai" (imitation) supply chain as authoritarian governmental control and hyper-accelerated gentrification are rapidly changing the face of the city.
Holy Land
5 episodes · 2017
Season two takes us inside one of the world’s biggest startup nations. With the most tech startups and venture capital per capita in the world, Israel has long been hailed as The Startup Nation. We look beyond Tel Aviv’s vibrant, liberal tech epicentre to the wider Holy Land region – the Palestinian territories, where a parallel Startup Nation story is…
Episode 1. Holy Land: The Era of Permanent Revolution
2017-02-14 · 20 min
In the first episode of Holy Land, WIRED visits Jerusalem Tel Aviv and Ramallah, to investigate how technology and innovation are emerging to become the region's dominant themes.
Episode 2. Holy Land: The Innovation Hubs of Tel Aviv & Ramallah
2017-02-21 · 20 min
In this second episode, we visit Rothschild Boulevard in the heart of Tel Aviv to explore how the city flourished so quickly as a vibrant innovation hub. Liberalism, youth and cultural embrace of both failure and debate are all part of…
Episode 3. Holy Land: The Power of Fantasy
2017-02-28 · 20 min
In the third instalment of Holy Land, WIRED explores how the power of fantasy continues to shape the region's tech ecosystem. We examine Shimon Peres’s extraordinary legacy in shaping Israeli innovation, tracing the evolution of the…
Episode 4. Holy Land: How to Create a Sustainable Ecosystem
2017-03-07 · 20 min
We hear how gaps in the workforce will be filled by the ‘second wave of immigration’, meet a Haredi mother defying the odds with her home-based startup and visit a special intelligence unit of the IDF made up of uniquely gifted cadets. We…
Episode 5. Holy Land: Global Convergence and the Future of Progress
2017-03-14 · 20 min
We look at Israel’s developing relationship with the manufacturing super hub of Shenzhen in the face of increasing pressure from the West, and hear how the young nation’s flexibility puts it in the perfect position for technological…
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technologyentrepreneurshipmanufacturing
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