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What's the Point of a Smart City?
In Canada, in Canada, Google attempted to collude with the Ontario government to make the new port development in Toronto into a smart city. Now it's reminiscent to me as well of what's happening in the UK, most particularly in Oxford and Cambridge in relationship to the 15 minute cities. And then I look at places like China, which have taken this to an extreme, 600 million closed circuit TV cameras in China. One for every one and a half persons watching the Chinese all the time able to monitor them 100% by face and also to identify them by gate. This pop down surveillance system perversely and some of the Chinese engineers have actually named Skynet. You can't talk about