Tech firm is building $1billion city in New Mexico

Daily Mail ^ | 10/6/15

[Kartographer]

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.

Pegasus plans to spend $1billion creating the 15-square-mile town, called CITE, with construction to begin sometime next year and opening as early as 2018.

CITE will include a town big enough for 35,000 people, with a business district downtown surrounded by terraced housing suburbs - but no one will ever live there.

Instead, companies will have the opportunity to test such innovations as driverless vehicles and natural disaster-proof homes in a human-free, practically risk-free, environment.

[Kartographer]

New Mexico ping

[Regulator]

SimCity lives!

[demshateGod]

Gross. Not NM, but a 1 bil city built at once.

[Liberty Valance]

[Robert DeLong]

Yeah, tell that to the illegals, that no one can live there.

[Steely Tom]

I hope no particular ethnic groups are underrepresented.

[Army Air Corps]

They had best have good security, otherwise it will become a campsite for illegals.

[DaxtonBrown]

Where can I send all my retirement money to fund this sure thing/no lose success?

[Kommodor]

Brilliant. Sounds like something China would do, spend a billion dollars building a city somewhere nobody in their right mind would want to live.

[blam]

Let me see why they shouldn't do this:

They're heading into a 1,000 year drought there!!

[Bidimus1]

Call it Miranda -— (Firefly ref..)

[discostu]

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.

[shotgun]

Squatters Rights

[okie01]

Has a fighting chance to surpass Gov. Bill’s railroad as the worst idea in the state.

[Kartographer]

It will make a fine FEMA Camp

[thackney]

‘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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[Disambiguator]

Any idea where in NM they want to put this place?

[Kartographer]

http://www.pegasusglobalholdings.com/press-releases/center-for-innovation-testing-and-evaluation-010911.html

[blackdog]

"It will make a fine FEMA Camp"

Bingo!