Toronto’s Scrapped Smart City Reflects Distrust in Tech
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Toronto’s Scrapped Smart City Reflects Distrust in Tech
In the summer of 2019, The Wall Street Journal published a series of articles that raised questions about WeWork’s a corporate governance and revealed unsavory details about Adam Neumann’s personal financial dealings, as well as his penchant for partying.
Maureen Farrell • The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
In the aftermath of the 2016 Presidential election, these attitudes radically shifted. For different reasons, both sides of the political spectrum began to immensely distrust the platform monopolies. The algorithmically curated streams that had once seemed so futuristic suddenly became Orwellian. Today, it’s not only acceptable to move more of your... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
In today’s world, we have computer scientists, some of whom care about cities and gravitate towards related work. We also have urban planners, architects, and other ‘traditional’ professions that physically shape the city, and some have started to think about how they can employ technology to do that. When two fields start intersecting like this, i... See more