tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145880782229824212.post4785542614056336986..comments2024-01-02T14:10:54.337+00:00Comments on UTOPICUS : > PRISM, Big Brother and the City of SongdoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9145880782229824212.post-77097557787974492122013-09-24T19:24:59.263+01:002013-09-24T19:24:59.263+01:00THis is a city of the future?
Great article, but ...THis is a city of the future?<br /><br />Great article, but the U-City appears to be more of just the same old thing. American Capitalism has taken the notion of "consumerism" and effectively translated resource-depleting economics globally. <br /><br />The project --->the district is planned to contain 80,000 apartments, 4,600,000 m2 of office space and 930,000 m2 of retail space." <br /><br />The City will still run on energy, re: oil and need water. The office space and retail space will require global trade imbalances and exporting cheap resources and goods to balance out the demands of maintaining this "new" lifestyle. <br /><br />Surveillance is a tag-along issue. People are less concerned about "big brother" than they are about shelter and food. Until the proverbial you-know-what hits the fan. Than the surveillance is no longer an efficiency tool but a tool for the State and corporate interests. This not Utopia; this is the destruction of Western civilization writ large; this is pure folly and wholly unsustainable. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com