Zarif Faiaz

We’ve all heard the phrase—“China is not living in the future. It is the future.” In many ways, it is a literal truth. The influx of robot taxis, the automation craze, and the skyscrapers in Shanghai racing each other to the clouds certainly point that way. For many economies in the Global South, it is also a blueprint. But the most tempting lesson to draw from China’s technological miracle is also the most misleading: build a few futuristic industrial parks, announce an artificial intelligence strategy, import advanced equipment and wait for transformation to follow.

We live it every day, and Dhaka’s unliveability is simply undeniable.

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