Google’s plan to revolutionise cities is a takeover in all but name (theguardian.com)

> Its executives have floated the idea of taking some struggling city – Detroit? – and reinventing it around Alphabet services, with no annoying regulations blocking this march of progress.

This is pretty much exactly the plot of Robocop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop

no duh. Why do people tolerate google? Nobody is so dumb to not realize what they're doing, everyone has seen or read 1984.

Something doesn't add up.

"Google Urbanism means the end of politics, as it assumes the impossibility of wider systemic transformations"

That would serve as a definition of neofeudalism.