New Mexico ping
SimCity lives!
Gross. Not NM, but a 1 bil city built at once.
Yeah, tell that to the illegals, that no one can live there.
I hope no particular ethnic groups are underrepresented.
Where can I send all my retirement money to fund this sure thing/no lose success?
Brilliant. Sounds like something China would do, spend a billion dollars building a city somewhere nobody in their right mind would want to live.
They're heading into a 1,000 year drought there!!
Kind of an interesting idea. Not sure there’s that much city experimenting that needs to happen, but it’ll make a great bunch of movie sets after it fails.
Has a fighting chance to surpass Gov. Bill’s railroad as the worst idea in the state.
‘The idea of “testing” complex socio-technical systems without the people is bound to yield misleading results because real people frequently interact with materials and devices in ways that are not anticipated by the designer.’
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Testing a driverless car without people around would be completely pointless. The people, and the bad decisions they make, are the real obstacles. A sixth-grader can design a automatic vehicle around static buildings.
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Any idea where in NM they want to put this place?
Nobody would want to live in that drug war zone
It is private money so good for them. I don’t see a problem with it, especially if it can help bring new tech into reality faster.
I recall this was big news in Hobbs back in 2012 or 2013 when I was out there. They were going to build it west of Hobbs going towards Artesia... last I read it all fell through, though.
"Telecommunications and tech firm Pegasus Global Holdings is planning to build a full-scale American town in the New Mexico desert, a place which they hope to open to researchers developing technologies for modern living."
Isn't a New Mexican desert .... American ?
I can’t wait until the parasites move in and tank the whole project. They have rights, too, ya know!
The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) was a concept developed by Walt Disney near the end of his lifetime. This planned city was his intended purpose for the property purchased near Orlando, Florida, that eventually became the Walt Disney World Resort. Its purpose was to be a "community of the future" designed to stimulate American corporations to come up with new ideas for urban living.
- From Wikipedia entry on EPCOT