“Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city”
Group Flannery Associates, backed by prominent investors, quietly buy 55,000 acres of farmland in Northern California
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/26/silicon-valley-elites-buy-800m-land-new-city
These f**kers are just flat out evil:
“Silicon Valley investors including Michael Moritz, a venture capitalist; Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of Linkedin; Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of the philanthropic group Emerson Collective and wife of Steve Jobs; Marc Andreessen, an investor and software developer; Patrick and John Collison, the sibling co-founders of the payment processor Stripe; and the entrepreneurs Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, the Times reported.”
building a modern city is honestly not such a bad idea:
- roads designed for self-driving vehicles would make transportation extremely inexpensive
- modern construction techniques result in much higher energy efficiency
- solar and storage could make energy production practically free
- underground internet / utilities are more reliable
- larger emphasis on green spaces
- permaculture and vertical farming can produce much more food per hectare
- city could be designed to better harvest rainfall and keep it on the land
Not sure a modern city would/should be built with cars in mind as the primary form of transportation. Never seemed to be the most efficient way to get ppl around
From an efficiency standpoint you’re definitely correct, but I think most appreciate the flexibility they provide.
Ideally I’d want optimised roads with a broader emphasis on alternative public transportation networks.
