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Saudi Arabia’s NEOM smart city project has gotten a lot of attention lately, but Japan has a handful of smart cities in development that are every bit as innovative and weird and… maybe problematic? Especially a project called The Woven City by Toyota. Let’s take a look at them.
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0:00 – Intro
3:36 – SSTs
4:36 – Akio Toyoda
5:43 – Woven City
6:49 – Hydrogen Fuel Cells
7:27 – Health Monitoring
10:00 – Progress and Funding
13:20 – Sponsor – Brilliant
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hey Joe, the Toronto one is called quayside (kway-side) as in Queens Quay Blvd. thanks.
It's great the population is dropping because A.I robots will replace us in 10 years. People will be the minority among them. U.B.I will be the norm for everyone except the wealthy class. You own nothing and serve your master-A.I. supercomputer.
No thanks. I'll never move back to cess pools people call cities
"Fossil" fuels don't exist. Oil is abiotic and replenishes naturally. Smart cities are for stupid people who like to live in a prison with no privacy. Covid was a hoax. Nobody is moving into cities. Every out of this guy's mouth is a genocider's lie they want to force upon us all. Good luck! 😂
More reason for my Sherlock Holmes outfit
Never that. Anyone willing to sign away all their rights, privacy, and security to be controlled in a police state smrt city is a smooth brain. It also violates our constitution and bill of rights in many many ways. No, never
funny how these smart city locations just keep bursting into flames…its almost like they want to start anew. order out of chaos.
8:23 1984 much?
No idea exactly what Musk has in mind for his company town outside Austin, but I'm sure he's claiming all the fancy stuff. But as soon we heard that Musk was buying plans to build housing for his employees, my wife and I looked at each other and said "Company Town". Yet more fascism from Austin's overlord.
I am a 76 year old guy, happily married for over 50 years and I can tell those who are planning cities for elderly people to kiss my royal arse, I will never live in a place like that, my independence is my priority and will never render it to anybody, my take on all of this is, the world is moving forward away from corporate greed and a new age already began where technology and humanism will work together to create a futuristic environment where people will live better and longer.
These Agenda 2030 / WEF Smart Cities / 15 Minute Cities have NOTHING to do with “caring for the elderly” and everything to do with CONTROLLING US. It’s contemporary style authoritarianism / communism where we will all be living in pods and eating bugs under the guise of the saving the earth due to the “climate change” hoax.
We aren't fooled. I hope you all are AWAKEN These cities are B.S. They are a PRISON CITIES controlled by the Government. All shoe box type of living spaces. The fires in L.A. are part of the smart city plan along with Maui. All digital which means controlled.
They burned the LA to pursue the Smart City future project. Nothings are coincidence. Politicians are evil
Demolition man, Terminator, Animatrix, Idiocracy, Elysium,
At least Toyota isn't killing people to build theirs.
11:00 There's a smart city named after the apartment complex in Dredd?
When I hear about these depressing, dystopian "future city" concepts like Woven, Neom, etc. I just wish I could go back in time to the Victorian era or late 19th century. I actually feel jealous of the poor work house people in a way. Even they weren't kept under surveillance as much as people living in places like Woven! All this tech surveillance rubbish will be the death of us! It just looks grim!
I find it odd that nobody ever thinks about what happens when it’s 110* in the summer or cold & snowy in the winter. What about the elderly or moms with several small kids? Trekking everyone on foot, bikes or RT doesn’t make sense year round. So they’re packing thousands of people into high density cities with less personal car use…won’t that Jam Pack RT and/or cause traffic jams for increased car service use during bad weather months? As they reduce the roads for auto, no less. 🤦🏽♀️
The way they market this crap sounds like a fantasy compared to what it’ll end up being.
70% of the population living in cities…Didn't Mao do something like that in China? How'd that work out?
Striking a balance between privacy and data availability, nice thought, but pretty sure it'll be the dystopian continuation we already live in
The reason we don't have company cities anymore is because the entire United States has been turned into a company Nation. We are kept In Perpetual debt. It's slavery with extra steps
I will never live in their "utopia", they can take their agenda 21 and shove it.
Lots of new opportunities for crime ;+}
Toyota will just be the HOA fee everyone pays for private homes and condominiums already. And if it's more geared towards their aging community there's not really much slave labor they could force out of the elderly…
I like the idea of smart cities but realistically it makes more sense to build technologies that rework current cities to better house the elderly etc. the cost of upgrading what you already have is almost always cheaper than building something entirely new. not to mention many of these older individuals may have an emotional connection to the city they grew up in/around which won't be the case for Panasonics battery bubble city 20 years from now
With the migrant crises in multiple cities across the world, it seems to me like cities will continue to be abandoned by reasonable people. They're fleeing NYC en masse. God forbid you should ever need to evacuate one of these cities in a flood or a fire. Walk fast, I guess. Really fast.
Old country song called working for the company store. I hope we’re learning from our past mistakes.
Favela planet
It's literally high tech and hopefully less racist Fordlandia, which you should do a video about if you haven't already!
You've got me thinking 🙂 I already bought a full self driving car for outside the home mobility but what about movement around my home and property. Perhaps it is time to start saving for a humanoid caregiver, automated furniture, hmmmmm.
Great content Joe.
It's all fun and games until you hear a muffled "help, I've fallen, and I can't get up!" Only to see a drone that flipped itself over by rolling over a crack.
Smart cities aren't just a fad, they're a necessity for optimizing our urban lives. With the urbanization wave crashing in, our generation might not get the rural peace we dream of. So, let's not just watch from the sidelines! Time to roll up our sleeves and co-create the smart, future-proof cities we deserve! #Gabonese_urbanplanner