Smart Cities

Batteries failed across the nation during the worst storm/cold snap in modern history. NYC's garbage trucks were expected to deliver 12 hours of snow plowing but conked out after 4 hours. EV car owners reported they had trouble getting home because they had to stop so often to recharge their prematurely depleted batteries.

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.

The WEF's Global Smart Cities Alliance on Technology Governance is the largest global initiative that represents over 200,000 cities, local governments, research institutions, non-profit organizations and corporations. The Alliance collectively is promoting Technocracy on a global scale.

China constructed its infamous technocrat-inspired "ghost cities" designed to house tens of millions but rather stand empty today. Saudi Arabia is building a technocrat-inspired smart city that is 33 times larger than New York that will make Dubai look like an outpost. Both examples are completely unplugged from reality. Technocrats build because they can, not because there is any good reason to do so.

Prisoners of war are slaves when put into concentration camps. Modern cities are headed in that direction as ubiquitous surveillance and monitoring technology is merged into the human condition via implants, wearables and ingested sensors. Add to that the totally immersive Metaverse and you have a perfect recipe for outright slavery. 

City-based Technocrats are thrilled that Biden's recently passed infrastructure bill will lather cities with billions of dollars for smart city projects designed to light up the Internet of Things, provide ubiquitous surveillance and wrap in outlying areas that are currently out of reach of the surveillance state. Did you think that infrastructure spending was about fixing potholes and bridges?

Marketed on the basis of being free and convenient, the IKE kiosks collect data on every person who comes near them, including id'ing your bluetooth and wifi devices. Cameras record your face, examine your choices and selections. Their payback is "surveillance capitalism" where you are subsumed into the Technocrat control grid.