November 5, 2017
At the Future Investment Initiative, business leaders dreamed up plans for a new metropolis saddled between Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt called Neom–a solar- and wind-powered city with more robots than people. On the other side of the world, Google’s parent company is developing Sidewalk Toronto, a high-tech smart city that may eventually become Google’s Canadian headquarters.
Will our vision of the city of tomorrow remain a harmonious mix of technology and society, or will it shift toward a disaster-filled dystopia?
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