“Everyone in the IT industry uses them to protect our high tech, especially servers and hard drives,” he says. ’KUAI KUAI CULTURE’It’s difficult to exaggerate the ubiquity of the product and its perceived power to protect tech. Engineers placed bags of Kuaikuai at the base of a model of the Falcon 9 rocket, which carried the Formosat 5, Taiwan’s first domestically developed satellite, into space. As with many beliefs surrounding magic, techies say that Kuaikuai possesses tangible properties that ensure it will maintain tech. Similar to the media endlessly reporting on temples like Tzunanagong, so too has there been a litany of reports about the efficacy of Kuaikuai to protect tech.

Source: Taipei Times November 18, 2020 15:56 UTC