Toronto's Smart City Could Bring Better Living Through Technology
October 25, 2017

Toronto's Smart City Could Bring Better Living Through Technology

Sidewalk Labs' winning proposal for a smart city on Toronto's waterfront reads a little like extremely detailed science fiction.

At almost 200 pages, the document conceives of all aspects of living, working and playing in a high-tech community of a not-so-distant Toronto. While the ideas are firmly based in existing concepts and infrastructure, the sheer ambition of it looks…

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