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This is what I got when I asked Meta AI about plans for Los Angeles being transformed into a Smart City👇👇👇
Los Angeles' SmartLA 2028 initiative is an ambitious plan to transform the city into a highly digital and connected urban environment by 2028, coinciding with the city's hosting of the Olympics. The plan focuses on leveraging technology to improve the quality of life for residents, businesses, and visitors.¹
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Key Components:
- Infrastructure: Developing a unified digital payment platform for public transportation, deploying 10,000 public electric vehicle charging stations, and implementing smart wayfinding kiosks.²
- Digital Services: Enhancing online services for residents, businesses, and visitors, and improving digital inclusion to ensure equal access to technology.³
- Data and Analytics: Utilizing data tools and practices to enable effective information sharing across departments, and to identify areas for improvement in government services.⁴
- Connectivity: Deploying ubiquitous, ultra-high-speed 5G connectivity across the city to support emerging technologies.
Strategic Challenges:
- Improving shared usage of IoT sensors across city departments and the private sector
- Avoiding over-investment in physical infrastructure
- Ensuring equitable access to technology and digital services
The SmartLA 2028 initiative is a comprehensive plan that aims to make Los Angeles a model for smart cities worldwide.
IN 2006, RESEARCHER CLEVE BACKSTER — THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE CIA'S LIE DETECTOR PROTOCOLS — PUBLISHED 36 YEARS OF EXPERIMENTS PROVING THAT PLANTS, BACTERIA, AND HUMAN CELLS IN PETRI DISHES RESPOND INSTANTANEOUSLY TO HUMAN THOUGHT AND EMOTION — EVEN AT DISTANCES OF HUNDREDS OF MILES. THE SIGNAL IS FASTER THAN LIGHT. IT DOES NOT DIMINISH WITH DISTANCE. IT IS NOT ELECTROMAGNETIC.
In 1966, Cleve Backster was the world's foremost expert on polygraph technology. He had developed the interrogation techniques used by the CIA, FBI, and U.S. military. He understood galvanic skin response — the electrical conductance of biological tissue — better than anyone alive.
One morning, on a whim, he attached polygraph electrodes to a Dracaena plant in his office. He watered it and watched the tracing. Then he thought: "I wonder what would happen if I threatened this plant." He decided to burn a leaf with a match.
The instant he formed the intention — before he moved, before he lit the match, before any ...
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