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What if Google bought Detroit?
- czottmann 13y agoWhat an interesting thought experiment. Building a (corporate) model city for the 21st or 22nd century, pour all the great ideas they have into a remade city as a showcase for what's possible. OTOH there's probably a lot of residents who wouldn't want to live in a city owned whole by one single corporation. Would I?
- adamr 13y agoThis is a great article. Unfortunately, I don't see it ever working out. It would be one huge workspace though...
- lsiebert 13y agoAnd they can keep the streets safe with Robocop. But seriously, why would Google do this, when they can work with a small municipality without crushing debts that will sell out simply for the jobs that Google would bring?