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  • dumb smart cities El Salvador is building a volcano-powered "Bitcoin City" with no taxes Thom Dunn
  • smart cities Podcast: The case for … cities that aren't dystopian surveillance states Cory Doctorow
  • sensing without surveilling Imagining a "smart city" that treats you as a sensor, not a thing to be sensed Cory Doctorow
  • surveillance city Toronto business and government signal full support for Sidewalk Labs' dominance of the city and beyond Rosemary Frei
  • waterfront toronto Public treated to obfuscation at Waterfront Toronto meeting on negotiations with Google sister company over surveillance district Rosemary Frei
  • means testing Sidewalk Labs' quiet plan for Canada's banks to manage a national digital ID for health care and housing Lilian Radovac
  • quayside Toronto approves Google's surveillance city, despite leaks revealing Orwellian plans Cory Doctorow
  • sidewalk labs Leaked document reveals that Sidewalk Labs' Toronto plans for private taxation, private roads, charter schools, corporate cops and judges, and punishment for people who choose privacy Cory Doctorow
  • high-tech feudalism Critical essays (including mine) discuss Toronto's plan to let Google build a surveillance-based "smart city" along its waterfront Cory Doctorow
  • internet health report Mozilla's Internet Health Report: discriminatory AI, surveilling smart cities, ad-tech Cory Doctorow
  • ccla Canadian Civil Liberties Association sues Toronto, Ontario, and Canada over the plan for a Google Sidewalk Labs "smart city" in Toronto Cory Doctorow
  • death squads IBM supplied surveillance gear to Davao while Duterte was mayor and cheering on the city's police-linked death-squads Cory Doctorow
  • anticozy apocalypses Tim Maughan's Infinite Detail: a debut sf novel about counterculture, resistance, and the post-internet apocalypse Cory Doctorow
  • quayside Sorting the spin from the facts: how big can the surveilling city that Sidewalk Labs plans for Toronto get? Rosemary Frei
  • robo-dutch Rolling robots 3D print a bridge, inching their way along the span as they lay it Cory Doctorow
  • smart cities Trailer for Elevation, a film on how drones will change cities Andrea James
  • fatbergs London demonstrates the stupid, janky future of Smart Cities Cory Doctorow
  • adam greenfield's Radical Technologies An important, lyrical, critical book about the future of "Smart Cities" Cory Doctorow
  • know thyself warts and all Smart cities are as stupid as the people who make them Cory Doctorow
  • dumb smart cities A dystopian reboot of some sponsored Internet of Shit content Cory Doctorow
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