It’s unlikely we’ll ever see the experimental city proposed for the Toronto waterfront by Sidewalk Labs, a sister company of Google Inc. An unrelated project announced last week explains why. By sharp contrast, Sidewalk Labs’ proposal for Quayside, a town laced with surveillance cameras and electronic sensors, remains a riddle even to its proponents. Sidewalk Labs has failed to address privacy, intellectual property and civic revenue-sharing issues. The current impasse will last until each side accepts, however warily, the other’s perceived rightful place in the world, an outcome Canadian business can’t afford to wait for. The biggest alternative market, though, is India, where Canadian business ties are better established than elsewhere among the highest-growth economies.

Source: thestar July 02, 2019 09:11 UTC