Last week, as the city of Toronto basked in brilliantly sunny autumn weather, I visited a corner of its urban waterfront on Lake Ontario. My destination was a small, trendy blue building that is tucked — incongruously — in a wasteland of grimy warehouses and construction sites.
To the uninitiated, it might look like a piece of installation art. But that blue structure is actually a new battlefront in the tech wars.
On October 31, a Canadian government agency called Waterfront Toronto gave provisional permission to Sidewalk, a division of Google, to move forward with its plan for a $1.3bn “smart city” on the land around the building.
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