What 2,000 years of Chinese history reveals about today’s AI-driven technology panic – and the future of inequality
- Written by Peng Zhou, Professor of Economics, Cardiff University
In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China’s sun-scorched plains: “Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward the opulent vaults held by the Han dynasty’s elite rulers.
As recorded in the ancient text Han Shu (the book of Han), these...
