> invaluable experiment Why would we want our city, homes and public places, to be turned over to an "experiment?" And not just an experiment, but an experimen

> invaluable experiment Why would we want our city, homes and public places, to be turned over to an "experiment?" And not just an experiment, but an experiment conducted by a corporation? And not just a corporation, but a foreign corporation that doesn't even have any significant presence here offering us decent jobs (and is instead one the leading causes of our "brain drain" problem)? Even if this experiment is invaluable (I can't imagine how it is), the majority of the value from experimenting would accrue to Google (experiments are valuable if they can be repeated many times after learning something new, and while Google could learn from the mistakes and repeat the experiment in a different city, Toronto would not be able to tear down the "smart city" to repeat the experiment). No great city in this world has been built on gimmicky technologies that will become obsolete. Just look at "smart homes" that were built 20+ years ago (e.g. installing speakers throughout the house etc), all the technology becomes an obsolete eyesore that eventually gets ripped out.