The Information notes that building a city could allow Sidewalk Labs to “rethink government, social policy, and data-driven management.” [CEO Dan] Doctoroff explained that “thinking about a city from the Internet up is really compelling,” while also noting that “cities are hard. You have people with vested interest, politics, physical space…But the technology ultimately cannot be stopped.” — 9 to 5 Google
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs joins the rarefied stable of companies potentially looking to expand from an initial service (in this case, improved WiFi access and traffic flow in cities) into a fully-fledged social experimentation machine. Will they build 21st century company towns or create a genuinely new, technology-based approach to living?
Here's a round-up of other mass-scale experimental projects:
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What is this dude even talking about....
They couldn't even make a pair of glasses work.
It would look like Black mirror episode 2.
A city where every street leads to porn or ads. Sounds great!
...We already have Las Vegas
Everything is under control by google, are we in matrix?
His son was my high school classmate :)
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