A WIRED Future Cities documentary on Shenzhen, covering its hardware-prototyping culture and shanzhai copycat manufacturing. It looks at how the city's ecosystem evolved and what the rest of the world can learn.

Why Hacker News readers recommend it: Strongly recommended in Shenzhen and hardware threads for its view of fast cycles, loose IP and the maker ecosystem.

“There's an excellent documentary on the hardware/hacking ecosystem in Shenzhen on YouTube”

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