Why Google’s Toronto Smart City Failed w/ Josh O'Kane
Tech Won't Save Us
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Block Stubborn Is a Bigger Opportunity for Data Collection
A leak that they were actively talking to alphabet about it creates an enormous amount of concerns you know and this is where a lot of the people who were opposed to the project rally around within like a week and a half or two weeks after this story comes out. The idea of well how is sidewalk lab is going to get powers over this land really centralizes a lot of opposition to the project that had been somewhat disparate before. It galvanized a lot of people, even just yesterday I was actually on stage at a conference with people from literally both waterfront Toronto and block sidewalk. They're not listening to the people who say that they're listening to them but then these things that they were supposed to
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