Too Long; Didn't Read
In October 2017, Google's Sidewalk Labs and the Canadian government teamed up to create a new age smart city. Google's sister company was tasked to design a modern, AI-enabled city on Toronto’s former industrial waterfront. The project was slated to have an underground garbage disposal, heated sidewalks, and skyscrapers made from timber. It was hyped up to be the city of the future but eventually died quietly in the May of last year. Smart cities cannot function if all stakeholders involved don’t have a certain trust in them.