Sidewalk Labs is the search giant's latest venture, aimed at finding solutions for better organizing and managing cities, and generally improving urban life.
"Sidewalk will focus on improving city life for everyone by developing and incubating urban technologies to address issues like cost of living, efficient transportation and energy usage," Page said in a Google+ post.
"Many cities around the world have already made a lot of progress in some of these areas — for instance, developing dashboards to measure and visualize traffic patterns, and building tools that let residents instantly evaluate and provide feedback on city services. But a lot of urban challenges are interrelated — for example, availability of transportation affects where people choose to live, which affects housing prices, which affects quality of life," Page wrote.
http://sputniknews.com/science/20150612/1023258131.html
"Improving" means you will do what you are told, and Google will decide whether it's enough of an improvement.
Of course, everyone in the Google city will be tracked 24/7 by Google, which will make controlling them that much easier. And should they stray off course, Google drones can be dispatched to chastise them.
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