Far from being a feature of the West only, the growth of the social quantification sector, logistics, and the IoT in the context of rapidly expanding uses of artificial intelligence is a core development and policy goal in China too. The social quantification sector emerges as an arena of commercial and geopolitical competition between the West (particularly the United States) and China.

Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, loc. 50