★Shortlisted in 2025 Premio Strega Non Fiction category!
★Global Perspective on Asia: This book examines Asia's rise in population, economy, culture, and military, analyzing its impact on global development. It challenges Western stereotypes and highlights Asia's diversity.
★Key Issue Analysis: It explores future diets, urban sustainability, family dynamics, and AI in work, using Asian examples to offer insights and forward-thinking perspectives.
★Tech-Society Interactions: It links technologies like big data, AI, and neural chips with social trends, providing a new way to understand future societies.

An in-depth look at Asia, between social conflicts, technological innovations, and cultural trends, to help us better understand our society and our future.

Asia is already a demographic, economic, cultural, and military powerhouse; what happens in that part of the world is often a preview of what will take place in our societies. What will the cities of the future look like? How will we move around? How will Big Data and ar-tificial intelligence change our lives? How will we deal with the demographic crisis and the environmental cri-sis? What types of food will we eat? And what kind of families will we be? There is in fact a part of Asia that we don’t see, but which grows at a rapid pace; and it is discussing, tackling, and sometimes solving issues that have also been debated in our western world for some time. An Asia where a billion-dollar company is born ev-ery day, cities transform themselves, robots take care of the elderly, surgery is performed remotely, blockchains are rampant, factories are automated, digital currency is the only payment method possible, and cultured meat is a daily dietary ingredient: a world with examples, cues, and solutions from which we could learn. And mistakes we could avoid repeating.

Simone Pieranni is a journalist who lived in China from 2006 to 2014. In that time, he started China Files, a publishing agency that works with several Italian media sources through reports and articles about China and Asia. He created the podcasts Altri Orienti, Fuori da qui and Taiwan: perché. He is the author of Red Mirror. Il nostro futuro si scrive in Cina (ed. Laterza, 2020), La Cina nuova (ed. Laterza, 2021), and Tecnocina (ed. Add Editore, 2023).