Japan's Futuristic Smart Cities Hide a Dark Secret

Saudi Arabia's NEOM smart city project has gotten a lot of attention lately, but Japan has a handful of smart cities in development that are every bit as innovative and weird and... maybe problematic? Especially a project called The Woven City by Toyota. Let's take a look at them.


TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - Intro

3:36 - SSTs

4:36 - Akio Toyoda

5:43 - Woven City

6:49 - Hydrogen Fuel Cells

7:27 - Health Monitoring

10:00 - Progress and Funding

13:20 - Sponsor - Brilliant


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