Coming soon to a New Mexico city will be a fully developed “ghost
town” that will be purposed not for people, but for computers and
technology. It’s expected to be the breeding ground, nicknamed “The
Center”, that will foster development of new technology and then provide the
“petri dish” to experiment on how this technology will work in a real world
(sort of) city. As if witnessing the blossoming of Mr. Licklider's
theories before our eyes, we further the pursuit of how our technology can
work, and possibly think, for us. The benefits are clear. New
technology developed in buildings that would typically exist under normal
environmental conditions would give way for earlier adoption and better
adaption outside a lab. This endeavor also promotes the opportunity for
capital investors to invest in the wave of the future. That being said, in the effort to recreate a
typical city it will be difficult to mimic all of the natural variables present
when people are not because we bring elements of technology use that cannot
always be reproduced. We use things
incorrectly, program without instructions and de-engineer technology which
limits its potential. It will be interesting, though, to see how this
proceeds, and hopefully it will not become a wasted $200 million investment.
--CG
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