About this nonfiction
Sideways : The City Google Couldn't Buy by Josh O'Kane is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
From the Globe & Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewalk Labs fiasco in Toronto, an uncompromising investigation into the bigger story & what the Google sister company's failure there reveals about Big Tech, data privacy & the monetization of everything.When former New York deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff landed in Toronto, promising a revolution in better living through technology, the locals were starstruck. In 2017 a small parcel of land on the city's woefully underdeveloped lakeshore was available for development, & with Google co-founder Larry Page & his trusted chairman Eric Schmidt leaning into Sidewalk Labs' pitch for the long-forsaken property—with Doctoroff as the urban-planning company's CEO—Sidewalk's bid crushed the competition. But as soon as the bid was won, cracks appeared in the partnership between Doctoroff's team & Waterfront Toronto, the government-sponsored organization behind the contest. There were hundreds more acres of undeveloped former port lands nearby that kept creeping into conversation with Sidewalk, & more questions were emerging than answers about how much the public would actually benefit from the Alphabet-o
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
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- Author
- Josh O'Kane
- Publisher
- Random House of Canada
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781039000797
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business, Technology, Computer Science