Posted on 03/04/2025 9:46:29 PM PST by Jonty30
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - City of Myrtle Beach staff are continuing efforts to make Myrtle Beach a ‘smart city’.
A Smart Cities Council has been created. It’s an internal working group made up of 13 staff members from nine different departments. They officially started meeting toward the end of April. During the meetings they talk about economic development strategy, what are some kind of technology or research they want to bring to Myrtle Beach.
Myrtle Beach staff has also recommended the development of a 311 Office, at the beginning of 2024.
The 311 Office will be a place where people can call and get their government services answered and they don’t have to be bounced around from place to place to get an answer.
They also want to implement virtual management with the 311 Office so that chatbots can answer people’s questions if they don’t want to call
Myrtle Beach Chief Innovation Officer, Howard Waldie, is also hoping to develop a “Myrtle Beach 101″ app to not only help people answer questions but can be a place where residents and visitors can alert the city to issues.
“So, there’s obviously a public safety component, but I mean it could be endless. It could have augmented reality at some of our hot-spot visitor destinations or also hot-spot destinations for our residents,” Waldie said. “That tells you the story of a park or tells you the story of Myrtle Beach’s history during World War II.”
The goal of a smart city is to use advanced technology to help improve the quality of life and businesses. That could include smart trash cans.
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https://www.myhorrynews.com/news/live-updates-carolina-forest-residents-may-return-home-crews-still-battling-1-200-acre-wildfire/article_ecd20aec-f747-11ef-a144-df09b2709746.html
The brush fires were far away from the beach
and had nothing to do with any of this.
eh?
The fire of Jasper also started a ways from Jasper, but it made to Jasper and burned down the town.
The place has money doesn’t it? Knock yourselves out I say.
Sure, but Jasper is way up there in Canadia Land...
Y’all probably did not want to put the fire out
because it might harm mother earth
or something like that.
It is like a whole different country up there.
eh?
It seems there is a pattern of the world’s best locations burning to the ground and giving officials the opportunity to rebuild the city in their image.
Lahaina, Jasper, Maui, Los Angeles, Valencia, Spain, Viña Del Mar, Chile,
There are many more prime real estate areas that just happend to burn to the ground and available to those who might buy the land for themselves.
Not so.
There is no linkage of fires and this story but it brings to mind the question of what is the prime mission of any government? Public safety or development?
Even Republican led governments can take their eye off of the ball.
Sounds like a colossal waste of money.
Smart trash cans? 3D “history”?
Pu-leeze...
Property values are gonna flatline on this news, and they’ll crash if this really becomes a set direction.
Lotta people wanna jabber about SmartCities...
...far, Far, FAR fewer actually want to live in one.
The money won’t be there long term. Pouring capital into any sort of Smart... — well, investing in SmartANYTHING, to be honest, is a losing proposition.
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