"Sidewalk will require tax and financing authority to finance and provide services, including the ability to impose, capture and reinvest property taxes,” the b

"Sidewalk will require tax and financing authority to finance and provide services, including the ability to impose, capture and reinvest property taxes,” the book said. The company would also create and control its own public services, including charter schools, special transit systems and a private road infrastructure. Sidewalk’s early data-driven vision also extended to public safety and criminal justice." I think people have a good instinct for dystopian corporate futures, so I think this will be nixed. The thing that I fear more, is that people have no concept how much culture is imbued in civilization and that it just can't be ordained like Walt Disney - other than in small parcels. What will happen is that culture will be optimized for profit. Much like boring processed food, which is scientifically geared to have the right mix of sugar and other flavours, and which all tastes kind of bland at the end of the day ... 'Google Life' would be like a jar of Salsa. If you've only ever had process/jarred salsa, you might think it's great - but if you've ever made salsa yourself (it's very easy) you know how great it is, and what it's supposed to taste like ... you can never go back. North America is full of people who've only ever known the life of 'jarred salsa' and they keep thinking these schemes have value, it's sad really. If this were an option to 'revitalise' an otherwise wiped out community that maybe temporarily needed some TLC ... then maybe. But in the long run? No thanks.