Meet the new 'disruptive' Chinese economy

Robert Scoble -- formerly of Microsoft fame, now a video blogger for Fast Company -- files a written report from a factory floor in China:

The Chinese are now cutting out (the likes of) Amazon and are building Web sites that you can buy products from directly and they'll ship right to your door. ...

This is total ownership of everything. Total disruption of everyone who used to make money along the supply chain. Retailers? Disrupted. Traders and middlemen and distributors? Disrupted. Web designers and developers? Disrupted.

Are you scared yet?

You should be if you are being disrupted.

The account seems a bit breathless in stretches, but he's there's and I'm not. Well worth the read.