Less traffic and new uses for public streets are two of the side effects of the pandemic. As cities map a path forward, some of these changes are likely to linger in a post-coronavirus world.
The unusual year that was 2020 rearranged the transportation landscape with increased bike use and a reduction in car commuting, making cities quieter, safer and greener. For some cities, these changes were the realization of long-held transportation goals.
Weiterlesen: US; The Pandemic Changed Transportation. Can Cities Hold Course?
As city governments continue to grow more technology-centric, they need to embrace universal cybersecurity education to reduce the risk of breaches and attacks, a group of technology leaders said during an online event Tuesday.
“If anyone breaks on the security chain, you’re vulnerable,” Jeanne Holm, Los Angeles’ deputy mayor for budget and innovation, said during an online conference hosted by Bloomberg CityLab.
Weiterlesen: US: Cities need 'cybersecurity education for everyone'
The proposal will give tech companies power to create their own laws. Which, uhh.
Innovation Nation
In an apparent attempt to barrel the country towards its inevitable cyberpunk dystopia, Nevada’s governor announced a proposal on Friday that would give tech companies jurisdiction and power akin to county governments.
Weiterlesen: US: Nevada Just Letting a Crypto Firm Run Entire Town as “Innovation Zone” (?!?)
Blockchains LLC wants us to trust it. The company is asking the legislature for its own governmental utopia in the Nevada desert 20 miles east of Reno – free of the rules that our state’s 17 counties currently live by. The company has the backing of the executive branch, some of the state’s most powerful lobbyists, money for campaign coffers, and a wish-list of ways to exempt itself from standards of local governance.
What Blockchains needs more than anything else, however, is water. It got into the farming business just south of Gerlach. But that’s a short-term play if the company ultimately gets what it wants.
Weiterlesen: US: Can Nevada Trust Blockchains –– Let’s Speculate
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak on Friday unveiled details behind a plan to allow private industry to develop technology "innovation zones" that would include new cities with their own government.
In particular, the Democratic governor is throwing the welcome mat out to developers of the technology behind blockchain, best known as the record-keeping system behind cryptocurrencies. One of the first big beneficiaries of a bill the governor has proposed would be Blockchains LLC, a Nevada-based firm that has previously announced plans to build a city from the ground up on 67,000 acres of desert land it acquired near Reno in 2018.
Weiterlesen: US: Nevada Governor Lays Out Plans for a City Built on Blockchain