Google’s plan to revolutionise cities is a takeover in all but name
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#3> Its executives have floated the idea of taking some struggling city – Detroit? – and reinventing it around Alphabet services, with no annoying regulations blocking this march of progress.
This is pretty much exactly the plot of Robocop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop
Re: Google’s plan to revolutionise cities is a takeover in all but name
#4> Its executives have floated the idea of taking some struggling city – Detroit? – and reinventing it around Alphabet services, with no annoying regulations blocking this march of progress. This is pretty much exactly the plot of Robocop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop
Yes, but will Google's fascism be symmetrical?
https://news.avclub.com/behold-the-fearful-symmetry-of-roboc...
Re: Google’s plan to revolutionise cities is a takeover in all but name
#5no duh. Why do people tolerate google? Nobody is so dumb to not realize what they're doing, everyone has seen or read 1984.
Something doesn't add up.
Re: Google’s plan to revolutionise cities is a takeover in all but name
#6"Google Urbanism means the end of politics, as it assumes the impossibility of wider systemic transformations"
That would serve as a definition of neofeudalism.