Why Google’s Toronto Smart City Failed w/ Josh O'Kane
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Idea of the Simplified Sidewalk Labs
Sidewalk labs was inspired by what disney had done previously in florida. They wanted to have a lot of control over the land that it governed and they very much wanted to put as much of that control as possible into the corporate power of sidewalk labs again this didn't happen with sidewalk labs but these were some of their ideas at the time. The organization has since taken a bit of a revisionist framing and saying that this was just a brainstorming exercisebut dozens and dozens of people spent thousands of hours putting this together. It was fundamentally a very good philosophical icebreaker for understanding how the organization really first saw itself and in its genesis yeah.
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