#ICYMI @bruces "Google being ignominously chased out of Toronto with pitchforks was probably the Waterloo for this." https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/522/State-of-the-World-2023-Bruce-St-page02.html re: #smartcities #SidewalkToronto #Quayside et al. #StateoftheWorld
The WELL: State of the World 2023: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky

The WELL: State of the World 2023: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky

Les personnes actives autour de #SideWalkToronto, le projet de ville intelligente mené par Google au Canda, ont compilé des dizaines de textes de réflexion sur la ville et la technologie, accessible librement.

https://some-thoughts.org/

Canadians were treated to an announcement involving the leaders of all three levels of government gushing and fawning about an enlightened urban partnership with a foreign company whose business model is built exclusively on the principle of mass surveillance … Eric Schmidt, Google’s former executive chair, said they had realized their long-running dream for “someone to give us a city and put us in charge.”

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-sidewalk-toronto-is-not-a-smart-city/

#SurveillanceCities #SidewalkToronto #Google #Alphabet

Sidewalk Toronto has only one beneficiary, and it is not Toronto

What happens with the city’s waterfront infrastructure will have profound and permanent effects on the digital rights and privacy of all Canadians