#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

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