What Killed Quayside, Sidewalk Labs’ Ambitious Smart City in Toronto
▻https://onezero.medium.com/how-a-band-of-activists-and-one-tech-billionaire-beat-alphabets-smar
Alphabet bet big in Toronto. Toronto didn’t play along. In October 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke at a VIP-laden press event in Toronto to announce plans for a new neighborhood in the city to be built “from the internet up.” The big reveal was the builder : Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. The mood was festive, optimistic. Schoolchildren were on hand with Lego models of future cityscapes, which Trudeau, flanked by Eric Schmidt, (...)
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