Control information and you control the populace. You don't need to use guns because the people don't know whats going on, you can prevent people from organizing, you can use misinformation and propaganda to control people. Control of information and control of speech is a massive amount of power. I'd rather google had access to a few nukes, honestly.

I'd probably get one, but I don't use it for work and my 2013 is still trucking along just fine.

Actually I could probably get a decent chunk of money for it and then use that to help finance a new one. hmmm

I'll wait and see if the keyboards are still crap.

Break 'em up!

They know they will get enough people applying several times that they can just toss out qualified people all day. Eventually enough get in.

No, why would he. He got what he wanted already.

True, but I recognize that I don't have any relevant skills or any way to help from the other side of hte pacific.

The main difference is I'm not tweeting about how I'm totally going to solve this, and then getting credit doing pretty much just that.

wasn't he asked to help by one of his twitter fans who eat up the "ELON IS LITERALLY TONY STARK" kool-aid?

Well, 1 former SEAL was dying trying to get the kids oxygen.

Musk didn't do anything but tweet about this. He deserves no credit, no praise.

They start selling the data (oh wait it's google, just terrifying services based on their data).

The abandon large amounts of costly hard to maintain infrastructure and the city crashes.

There is a constant push towards more and more government and corporate surveillance.

I don't believe this. I think this person should be personally tossed in jail when they inevitably are revealed to be collecting far more than people wanted them to.

Nothing, but they won't let that stop them. They will pack it with enough sensors to go full on dystopian nightmare and provide as little actual human support as possible.

> intelligent “pay-as-you-throw” garbage chutes

jesus, they really will find a way to ruin everything.

> neighbors would crowdsource approvals for block-party permits, giving a thumbs-up or thumbs-down based on the noise the gathering was expected to produce

oh great, we can have those shitty neighborhood social networks cranked up to 10.

oh and just imagine the HOAs!

> few better places to have this conversation than Canada, a Western democracy that takes seriously debates over informational privacy and data ownership—and is known for managing to stay polite while discussing even hot-button civic issues.

hopefully people wake up and become very very impolite towards these goddamn data companies.

> Hitching up with tech companies that are flush with both cash and grand visions might be cities’ best chance to leap into the future, or at least to turbocharge their lagging districts

Yeah, we need to give more power to corporations. Not less. We need fucking Larry running every aspect of our lives.

> So far, the deal hasn’t exactly been a victory for transparency

What a shock.

Except Nintendo could do that and be fine. Probably not, but if the third party is strong.

This is more like telling them to start shoving out a mario game twice a year.