Foreign Policy: Senegal’s Cryptocurrency City Has Evaporated
Foreign Policy: Senegal’s Cryptocurrency City Has Evaporated
archive: https://archive.is/Ji6cs
it continues to be weird how many of these things want to Just Build A New City as magic solutionism. the same strain of “that’ll fix it” it shows up with Neom and some others too. dunno if I have a conclusion with that really, just that picking cities of all things seems like the fucking weirdest all-in-one pick to go with
anyone happen to know if there’s someone that’s studied this and written a bit about it?
It's part of their retrofetishism & sneaking admiration for dictators and autocrats. "Remember when we used to really build things? Build whole cities, even? When we used to displace 10,000 people at the drop of a hat so we could build a new freeway? We don't do that anymore, because of
wokebureaucracy"I am actually talking book proposals about this one. (I told my agent about the Akon City article and her eyes lit up.) There's a definite strain of compelling crazy to pursue here.
obviously I should write an AI book first. But also, writing isn't fungible, so it'll be what I come out with first.