Smart Cities

Neom: Is World’s Biggest Smart City Worth 100,000 Lives (So Far)?

For all the hype, Saudi Arabia is on verge of the most colossal building project flop in history. They have already scaled the project from 100 miles to 1.5 miles. They are building the city with contract workers imported from from African nations, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and India and who are routinely abused. Over eight years, 21,000 workers have died.

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Neom: Sci-Fi City Of The Future Breaks Ground In Saudi Arabia

The first order of business was to forcibly evict and displace over 1 million Saudis from Jeddah, none of whom will ever actually live in Neom. This extraordinary, high-tech smart city will push sci-fi to the limit with robotic avatars, holograms, flying taxis, high speed rail and no roads. Ubiquitous surveillance features will be built into everything.

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