In the shadow of Mount Fuji, a new city is being built by Japanese car maker Toyota called “Woven City.” It’s been described as a “living laboratory” designed to investigate how urban inhabitants can live in tandem with autonomous vehicles, robots, clean energy, and artificial intelligence (AI).So-called smart cities, often surrounded by starry-eyed hype and savvy PR, have a fairly bad track record of ever getting off the ground. However, it appears that Woven City is actually going somewhere (well, that’s according to their savvy PR). Construction started in early 2021 and is set to finish in summer 2024. By 2025, the city hopes to soft launch and begin its "demonstration trials". These demos will include experiments involving next-generation remote communication technologies and “smart logistics” involving smartphone apps linked to delivery robots.Inside the city's homes, robotics and sensor-based AI plan to be used for everyday tasks like automatically restocking the fridge and taking out the trash. Another concept design showing a street of Woven City.Image credit: Toyota Woven CityToyota explains that the city will initially be home to around 360 people, mainly senior citizens and families, but plans to gradually expand its population to around 2,000. The residents will include employees of the company such as technicians and researchers, who will observe the settlement and develop technologies such as AI in a real-world environment.All of this will occur against the backdrop of an urban environment built by robots, inspired by the natural world and traditional Japanese woodwork. To aid the city’s design, the company has also employed the help of famous Norwegian architect Bjarke Ingels."Building a complete city from the ground up, even on a small scale like this, is a unique opportunity to develop future technologies, including a digital operating system for the city's infrastructure,” Akio Toyoda, chairman of the Toyota Motor Corporation and the company's former president and CEO, said in a statement in 2020.This is how Toyota hope Woven City will look when it's completed, apparently in 2025.Image credit: Toyota Woven City“With people, buildings and vehicles all connected and communicating with each other through data and sensors, we will be able to test connected AI technology... in both the virtual and the physical realms... maximizing its potential," he added.Akio Toyoda is a great-grandson of Sakichi Toyoda, the so-called "King of Japanese Inventors" who founded Toyota Industries in 1926 as a manufacturer of automatic looms. Although the company has since expanded beyond loom-making, the name “Woven City” appears to be a reference to this legacy. “If you didn't know, Toyota actually began as a loom manufacturer. We didn't start by building cars. We began by weaving fabric. Now, we hope to use our technology to weave together a new kind of city and a new way of enjoying life,” Akio Toyoda said at a press conference. 

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Gov. Newsom State of the State Address. One of the Biggest Crocks of Shit I ever heard...6-25-2024 - Governor Newsom Delivers 2024 State of the State Address - 12,096 views (An Insanely Low Number of Viewers) June 25, 2024 California Governor Gavin Newsom *** Newsom Compares Conservatives and Patriots With WW2 Italian Fascists - Citing CA Gov. Olson in a Jan. 2, 1939 Speech calling for America to Defend Democracy and Civil Liberties. - (Notice that he chose to Denounce Fascists and Not COMMUNISTS) - The Most Ironic Thing Of All is that the Conservatives and Patriots he is Calling Fascist are the very ones who Represent the American Values and Beliefs held by Americans in 1939... - One Term Atheist CA Gov. Culbert Levy Olson. (1939-43) When the judge asked him to place his hand on the Bible to be sworn in, he refused and kept his left hand in his pocket while he raised his right. - Olson was inaugurated as California's twenty-ninth executive on January 2, 1939, and was the first Democrat to serve as governor of California in 40 years.  - (Notice how the Office of Governor was Called an EXECUTIVE, because States are Corporations) - (Olson was a GLOBALIST) - Wikipedia: He was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution.[11][12] As a result, for the first time in human history, a World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.[13] - (While Newsom attacks and Vilifies Conservatives and Patriots, the CA Governor he referenced believed that Political Disagreement was a Natural Aspect of Democracy) - From Inaugural Speech: - Culbert Olson 29th Governor, Democrat 1939–1943 - Delivered: January 2, 1939 - ***I respect honest differences of philosophy and viewpoint on public policies. Marked differences in partisan opinion, for the most part, arise out of differences in understanding our common problems and the methods necessary to meet them through government. These are but the natural and healthy attributes of a functioning democracy.*** - (Olson also understood the Simple Fact that America is a REPUBLIC, Not a Democracy.) - Every person in California, regardless of party, color, creed or station in life, must know that, not only am I without prejudice, but I regard it as my sacred duty, under the oath I have taken today, to protect every person's civil liberties, and equality before the law, with every power at my command. These are precious rights. The founders of our republic and the preservers of the Union made supreme sacrifices for these rights. They are the very cornerstone of our democracy. - As we witness destruction of democracy elsewhere in the world, accompanied by denial of civil liberties and inhuman persecutions, under the rule of despots and dictators, so extreme as to shock the moral sense of mankind, it seems appropriate that we Californians, on this occasion, should announce to the world that despotism shall not take root in our St