Google’s plan to revolutionise cities is a takeover in all but name

Tuesday 24 October 2017

Parent company Alphabet would provide services in response to data harvested

Last June, Volume, a leading magazine on architecture and design, published an article on the GoogleUrbanism project. Conceived at a renowned design institute in Moscow, the project charts a plausible urban future based on cities acting as important sites for “data extractivism” – the conversion of data harvested from individuals into artificial intelligence technologies, allowing companies such as Alphabet, Google’s parent company, to act as providers of sophisticated and comprehensive services. The cities themselves, the project insisted, would get a share of revenue from the data.


See online : The Guardian

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