Neom: Saudi Arabia's A.I. Megacity
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If you don’t say this is bullshit I will forever hate u ser.
The only thing stopping this from becoming a reality is reality itself.
Actually quite the opposite. Every concept is "doable" in theory. The limitations sre technological.
@@danielpirez381 The reality is that "The Line" is positioned in or near 10 seismotectonic zones, with two comprising the highest risks. Do an internet search on the topic.
@@danielpirez381 Even if the Line was possible technologically, it’s still completely idiotic. Saudi Arabia has a citizen population of around 19 million (their population is declining btw, it’s not like they’re Nigeria) and the Line is projected to eventually house 9 million. Are they honestly expecting nearly half their population to move? Even if that did magically happen, the housing market in the rest of Saudi Arabia would crash in spectacular fashion. Unless they convince 9 million expats willing to move to the desert (again, Saudi Arabia’s population is declining so they obviously are failing at that), the project makes zero sense
The Prince of Saudi thinks that adding AI, IoT to anything will make the project more appealing, but the cities have no plan for industry and work opportunities.
As an architect, this project seems to be people not learning lessons from past failures. It is impractical, ecologically damaging, and has serious social issues
I have those issues too but I'm still pretty nice
If even an architect can see insurmountable issues here then imagine the nightmares the engineers are having just thinking about this fever dream project.
@@ShadowLynx777 valid point
You mean, like the spy bots that want to monitor everyone 24 hours a day, even in "private"? Why would they do that? "To optimize the city experience," of course. Sounds like data mining for optimizing the advertising (not to mention the morality police).
The gulf is littered with dick measuring contests all the time, from the tallest skyscraper, to the car with most wheels and most luxurious toilet because neighbour Abdulah has one
"AI" is typically used as a marketing buzzword to attract investors and in practice doesn't achieve anything new on such a large scale, since the "Goal" of using AI is always nebulous and never ends up being defined well enough to be actually implemented in a practical manner.
I think Amazon/Microsoft/Google have proven that AI is being implemented practically. When you narrow your criteria to search algorithms, targeted advertising, mapping, geolocation and mass surveillance it's a proven technology. The companies that use AI don't want talk about it, though.
@@colingravon9810 using it like that is nothing new or special
@@colingravon9810 AI like that is just computational statistics.
Now just throw in "crypto blockchain" and they can go get themselves some investors.
@@megaprojects9649 You don't know Simon, 30 years ago they used to tell Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Al Maktoum that he is crazy about building Dubai now, one of the most beautiful and most important cities in the world in the tourism, business and entertainment sector
Saudi Arabia’s giant projects are many and varied in almost all sectors, and they are worthy of praise because they are racing against time to move away from oil and want sustainability as well as innovation, and this is what the world wants in new projects .
Have you heard about the Amaala project, the Qiddiya project, the Red Sea project, the Diriyah project, the King Abdulaziz Road project in Makkah, the Jeddah Airport project, the Knowledge City project in Madinah, the Al-Soudah Company project, the Waad Al-Shamal project, the King Salman City for Maritime Industries project, a project SPARK (King Salman Energy City), the King Abdullah Financial District project in Riyadh
These are some projects and new ideas do not stop at the Saudi government and the latest
Project NEOM TROJENA
What a great setting for an action shooter game . . . .You start at one end and you cant just step outside because of the perpetual sandstorms and the drone security field so you have to work your way forward to the endgame setting . . . . .
kind of like some maps on destiny 2.
Kinda like hunger games in a straight line saga
I would make it a survival game.
Imagine the idea of AI (similar to the Red Queen from Resident Evil) having 110 miles to experiment with different people. Each section is a different experiment.
All controlled by the Saudi government.
Pharma companies able to test and experiment with people without worrying about repercussions.
This is how the Saudis could keep paying for the Line.
Ever watched the movie, Snowpiercer?
This is exactly what I would expect an absolute monarch would think people would like. First thing they do is build themselves a massive palace compound on the sea. Then they want to build this hamster cage for the common sheeple. Wow, how cool would it be to live in this box. Well, since the metaverse is collapsing, this seems like the next best thing!
I don't imagine many 'poor' people living there. I can't imagine many rich people staying very long.
The pride and ego driving neom is nothing short of mind boggling
its more like stupidity
You know what they say about Pride?
@@anthonyhassett that its gay?
No one does insane egotism like Arab oil sheikhs. I knew a PMC guy who worked as a bodyguard for some son of an UAE oil field owner and the guy went into a Rolex shop and tried on a watch, the latch got stuck so the guy went apeshit and refused to let the salesman unlatch to and had one of his entourage cut it off, destroying the watch in the process.
@@anthonyhassett The last phase before the fall 🙂
The “artificial moon” showing up in the concept art description caught me WAY off-guard lol
This has major, major Wall-E vibes. Don't cities generally start with a natural resource and grow organically in a rough circle? How many successful cities have been planned out entirely like this before anyone lived there?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planned_cities
Not necessary a natural resources but there needs to be a reason why people would want to live there.
@@pupip55 this guy(ProducerBasement) has watched 'Adam something' video on neom and is repeating the same thing. Dangers of watching some youtubers and parroting and not necessarily knowing what you are talking about. Adam doesn't know much either XD.
@@cyberpunkdenton9497 I also don't know what i'm talking about.
Maybe Brazilia
In The Animatrix, it is said that the Machine City shown in the Matrix’s imagined future started in Saudi Arabia.
The kung fu robots and general dystopian atmosphere makes me think reality might be mimicking art a bit too closely…
Life imitates art.
Problem is that art is not always practical.
like Jeremy Clarkson would say
"somebody must have stood up in a meeting, proposing let's build a city, a linear city, just a line, for 170 km
and the rest of the meeting must have said, hmmmm... a linear city, good idea"
There's probably a reason why projects that are way less mega (but still very ambitious), like the Greening the Desert project in Jordan, or Saudi Arabia's own Al Baydha Project seem to work out with way more success than any of those prestigious fever-dream show-off megaprojects of the super-rich...
Might have something to do with the former actually solving pressing and fundamental problems of the country and the populace - and the other ignoring/belittling these "conventional" people (and even getting rid of them at gun point), and declaring itself to be only for the "dreamers" (= the rich).
the "dreamers" are not the rich;
the "dreamers" are S.T.E.M. Ph.D.s - the Saudis hope to attract the global scientific elite that currently moves to America on H1B visa (the genius visa)
I think mega cities like this are usually successful. They're rarely designed to actually be built, they're vanity dreams, sort of like someone building their dream home in The Sims that has 3 hot tubs and 13 toilets in 1 bathroom. They dont solve problems since they're not designed too, hence why they're sometimes virtually impossible to build even by someone like Jeff Bezos.
More likely it is a demand to the Middle Eastern country from a major-buyer-country of the former's oil, to order some superexpensive monstrosities from their companies (as main contractors) in order to adress the trade deficit.
@@VersusARCH With prior Saudi megaprojects like the Jeddah Tower they did hire foreign designers engineers, and architects but that's standard for massive building projects like that. America has tons of worldwide architects and engineers but they still end up hiring foreign firms sometimes since there just arent that many companies with the skill and experience building giant towers. Some finished projects like the Mecca Clock Towers were built partially with domestic and partially foreign engineers and architects. In all these cases though they use domestic construction companies and use a lot of domestic materials like local brick and concrete. Building materials that come from outside the country like wire and steel will come from a variety of countries since there are really only a few major copper producers and a ton of steel producers but not really any countries with major amounts of both and different building materials are often made by different companies even if they use the same materials (so steel bolts and girders are often made by different companies).
I've never built in Saudi Arabia but my families been in construction for 4 generations in my home state, and quite often the most money goes to a few places: the laborers and craftsmen building the place in the form of wages, the financial backer/investor/bank, the developer, the material suppliers, and the general contractor. The laborers, financial backer, developer, and general contractor are all locals as are some of the material suppliers. Once the building is finished the money made off it will go to local business since its locally owned.
This all means there isnt much money to be made by a foreign country forcing Saudi Arabia to build insane megaprojects. As Simon mentioned though dictators often do vanity projects to show off their power though and these megaprojects can be good for the local economy by investing in infrastructure and renting the office space out. One of the Saudi's largest buildings is a commerce tower similar to the World Trade Center and it rents space to a ton of businesses earning the country revenue.
They really should be focusing on more things like the Al Nadya project
2:30 - Chapter 1 - The concept
5:40 - Chapter 2 - The line
8:00 - Mid roll ads
9:15 - Chapter 3 - Oxagon
10:35 - Chapter 4 - Later stage plans
13:25 - Chapter 5 - Controversies
16:10 - Chapter 6 - Conclusion
Is it just me or the Prince is simply addicted to spending Giga Bucks for the sake of spending?
That concept of a city as a straight line is the most impractical thing ever.
No matter how hard they try, they can never reach what Dubai is, and Dubai is an absolute nightmare to live in or even look at!
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea !"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
Dont mention the war! I mentioned it once but i think i got away with it
@@collinb5524 DON'T MIND HIM HE'S FROM BARCELONA !
Hey look, it's that vanity project.
"A place for the dreamers" - So, you have to **imagine** an amazing utopian city is there, and dream that everything is peachy perfect... :P
Right!? While they behead 80 ppl in public executions... everything's perfect 🥴
They’ll have to dream that women can drive and gays can exist, too
Yes. The line! 175 km public transport system by Maglev or Hyperloop. That is what they are planning. Really? With a population of 1 million people only? How can the system be profitable? If not, how much money is required to subside it each year? Sustainable?
Exactly
@@catchnkill right... And for that matter why is anyone going to move there? What industry will it produce? What exports? Everything they have proposed is industry to support the Line itself.
Sounds suspiciously similar to Walt Disney's original Epcot city (and similar visions by Jacque Fresco); and I'm pretty confident it will face a similar fate.
Or that city in South Africa, or that city in China - both featured on this channel. Has the "I'm going to build a city ... let's see... yes, over there looks good. It'll be fabulous (do something about those peasants will you?)" approach ever worked? Historically? And the Saudi's track record with large ambitious projects isn't good, as Simon pointed out. But dreams are free at least.
@@MrPossumeyes most of the colonial cities in the Americas were done with that same approach...only had to almost exterminate most of the native people and relocate the remaining to undesirable locations. Us savages were used to harsher living, and what's a few million savage lives in the name of progress?
@@Nipplator99999999999 I know Brasilia was planned, come to think of it (no doubt with plenty of Bugger off, you lot), but didn't the rest grow in places people already gathered for whatever reason (resources, transportation, general utility...)? But yeah, the locals always got the shitty end of the stick.
@@MrPossumeyes by the time the European empires started to establish colonies, the natives were being used to "guide" them in survival techniques. During that period things were relatively friendly, but when the USA started Manifest Destiny as a justification, things got slightly more "nice fertile lands you guys have cultivated for centuries...will it be trinkets or lead?"
@@Nipplator99999999999 it's time to stop with the lie that natives lived in peace with each other and the land before Europeans arrived. Natives went to war with each other, stole land, took slaves etc - the only difference is Europeans where better at it.
It's nice to see this channel reporting on NEOM in a realistic and measured manner, rather then the pandering this project has received elsewhere.
Measured? Calculated perhaps, down to the bullet points that the marketeers of this project seem to have made around youtube.
This is sarcastic, right?
If Saudi Arabia wants to rehabilitate it's Fundamentalist Authoritarian image around the world then they should stop with the Fundamentalist Authoritarian ways.
@Haanz Vitesse. Autocracy would be a big improvemend on wat they are now
They should be more like Afghanistan. Free and democratic.
I find it amusing how people judge an entire country based on what they learned from the media propaganda
Suddenly everyone is an expert in politics and foreign affairs!
@@bttawfiq To be honest, I think that a country which lures a journalist critical of its regime into one of its embassies in a foreign country, murders him, and cuts up his body with a hacksaw, might have a human rights problem... I'm not an expert, but I feel able to make a judgement call on this one
@@jessejoyce1295 this proves that you don't know the truth, only what the media told you, exactly...
He wasn't "just" a journalist to begin with, and let's leave it at that....
The concept art makes me think someone got a hold of some old Popular Science mags
Neom also makes a great setting for cyberpunk-themed action RPG game, lol.
The robots fighting each other with martial arts sounds like someone working on this project watched the film "Real Steel" and thought "That was cool and we have more money than sense. Let's make this for real"
Don't forget "Ice Pirates"
Glad I'm not the only one who thought that.
@@andrewgause6971 Robot Jox? Dystopian for sure.
Flying taxis, hyperloop, Ai everywhere, and 0 carbon emissions from all this. Seems legit
Chapo Trap House has a video mocking Neom and they make the same connection to “Real Steel”.
I think someone pitched a new Bioshock game to the Saudis and they decided to turn it into a real-life experience.
I was a huge fan of cyberpunk dystopias until I realized we're practically living in one, ''eco friendly'' (or whatever else you want to call it, essentially pick your buzzword) housing for billionaires built with oil money and slave labour sounds like something out of a gritty dystopian science fiction novel, but it isn't.
Brave New World, 1984, Animal Farm, these books are based on the real world.
@@BoostedPastime art imitating life soon turns to life imitating art. How poetic
You act as these things is a common, every existence. You literally have to go out of your way to find them.
@@BoostedPastime ..and don't forget Judge Dredd.
@@lashlarue59 I need to read that!
Wow ... astounding is not enough to describe the huberus in this design.
This is never gonna be finished.
If Simon ever runs for any type of office, his entrance music on the campaign trail should be the closing credit riff. Lol it's so over the top. I love it.
So they took the cautionary tales of the likes of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury or William Gibson and thought "Hey, that's a good idea! Let's make it." What could possibly go wrong?
😂
I Have No Ruler And I Must Line
Can’t imagine the amount of graft in a project like this…
It is done by ex pats no Saudi will do any actual work they are all corrupt lazy and the oil money means none of them have any skills
Well if its the corrupt western world, ya bet how big their corruption is 🤣
That's probably the only real aspect of this fantastical nonsense.
Best dystopian sci-fi novel
The best description of this bad idea I have so far seen. That deserves a sub.
It's amazing to me, how many folks wanna live in a giant hotel
Prison *
Shopping mall.
This is what happens when you let a mad man get absolute power. He comes up with insane, ridiculous projects, wasting money and everyone’s time, and without anyone to challenge him.
To be honest, the Oxagon seems more feasible and strategically/economically important than the Line, which seems like it'll become a nightmare to live in
Uh no. It's laughable. Why is half of it floating? Why to be cool of course, under that second artificial moon.
No, there is absolutely no reason for it to be floating as that area is completely empty
So instead of Santa Claus fitting thru a chimney it’s more feasible for the tooth fairy taking your tooth?
No need for it to be floating, regular ports are better, the Oxagon would just have better technology. There is nothing inherent in its design that makes it better.
I'm wondering about the conflict between massive amounts of seawater being used up in desalinization and the supposed ecological coral reef somewhere vaguely nearby.... The excessive salinity discharge from the desalinization process will kill that coral reef, and don't even get me started on the size of the sewage treatment plant(s) needed to process the discharge from the projected 9 million people who will somehow be lured into living in this thing.
Hey, as long as everything works perfectly always, there should be absolutely no issues!
"Welcome to the city of the future, where nothing can possibli go wrong."
It will just be full of Indian dudes just like Dubai.
Nice summary! Thanks for the info! Always looking for cool stuff. Update if you hear anything further plz thanks
I am a big fan of this channel, as I found out recently while creating my first content about sustainable architecture in dry environments made me even more amazed at how Simon and his crew keep creating loads of incredibly good content on so many different topics! A big compliment to everyone involved in creating them!
It would be interesting to see a mega projects video about Belgrade waterfront in serbia considering all of the controversies surrounding it
There's a similar project going on in Durres, Albania. Please explain the controversies.
The size of the city is basically exactly what the greater Houston area is if anyone wants to see the size
Americans will use anything but the metric system to measure things.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@dominatusprimus5460 the video referenced it in terms of the size of London and Tokyo; this is simply a third example. Also more realistic in terms of actual visual reference instead of an abstract term of hectares.
@@jamesengland7461 those are not good comparisons though. Houston is 10,062mi² London is 611mi² and Tokyo is 5,419mi²
Houston is basically exactly the same size.
@@youtubeSuckssNow that's my point
Wrong
Honestly sounds like a mega project that promises that it is more “advanced” than any other city without any real ability to deliver on the promises that they make.
Look for the people who are currently working on this project on YT and see how crazily huge this project is and the progress made already.. + They’ve always said things about new cities failing. I remember when they used to say Dubai is a failure or Chinese new cities are failing when in reality they’re the most successful projects ever.. And for the artificial moon thing it’s basically a carried mistranslation of a Satellite for the city but people like these love to say it as artificial moon to make the city look like a joke when in reality it’s a 500 billion city that is planned by the best consulting firms of the world..
@@knightara consulting firms are like lawyers. They’ll go along with any dumb idea as long as they get to keep charging.
All of these companies are just fleecing the taxpayers and investment firms or are just looking for clout. Essentially the same thing as Musk's goal of a Mars colony.
@@TheBooban if 1% of the plans succeed it will for sure be better than Sharm Alshaikh, Eilat, Hurghada and Aqaba which are just a couple of miles away and are very successful tourists destinations on the Red Sea.. Don’t be so ignorant..
@knightara Unfortunately, the feasibility of the ideas is the same as any of mine, as in totally unfeasible and useless
Oxagon having 7 points instead of 8 drives me absolutely crazy
Ok - try this.
It should be "The Cuboid".
Don't be pedantic.
It can have as many sides as they like. 😂
Neom already has its own airport now, and a special castle for the King. Solar and wind energy projects are already under development, we wait and see.
@Haanz Vitesse. what do you mean by equality in what exactly? All religions are treated they same in Saudi Arabia unless if you want to enter Makkah and Madina the 2 holy mosques that’s the only 2 places that are prohibited for non-muslims.
@Haanz Vitesse. so you want the Saudi government to pay for foreigns same as their own citizens. Thats not gonna happen bro. At least school system and healthcare are free for all even foreigns, also there’s 0 income tax for all even foreigns too. Name one western country has the same system.
@UC8dFtmeWfHOY9oADu2Jgb-A so your case is only for jealousy reasons what a jerk just get a life. FYI nobody can share our wealth unless we say so.
@@1.Doubleyou That's Absolute not true, the only mosque prohibited for non-muslims is Makkah, its not prohibited by the religion, its prohibited by the government because the mosque is too crowde. But, no one will stop a non-muslim from entering Mecca.
@@basam1459 Wonder what happens when you try to open a bookstore in Mecca, you know with books like the bible or about the enlightment or Kant,real books, just like in London, where all those (princely) hypocrits go to in the summer? A Barnes and Noble with a rainbow flag.
AI is just the modern version of the phrase “fix it in software”😂
1:34 that video isn’t for Neom. It’s for another project in Riyadh, Qiddiya
Fun fact: In the Matrix, the AI Machine city is located in Saudi Arabia
$500b seems pretty low for a ten thousand square mile city honestly.
Yeah the US Congress spends that by printing dollars about every 15 minutes nowadays it seems. Don't you just love inflation?
It's called a pipe dream. This won't be sustainable. And damn it sounds borring to live there too. And not being able to centralize services this idea will fall apart quickly. And centralizing would force people to move far in a line stressing the rail over capacity.
@@AntimatePcCustom it’s already going well get wrecked
Thunderfoot just released his analysis. 14 trillion was a basic estimate.
Might as well call it Mega City 1, not because of scale but also because of the mess of living conditions.
I guess that the people at Megaprojects don't want to get on Saudi's bad side because the entire 'the line' project is not just stupid but the amount of money needed is far greater than stated. That isn't even it's worst problem. Never mind the amount of work that would be needed or the technical challenges to create it but who the eff would want to live in it.
There's several other youtube channels that look at it in detail and that point out all the issues with it for those of you that think that this could ever be not only built but actually work.
This sounds like all the failed utopia cities of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, and the failed city in North Korea
Dubai was built quickly and more than lives up to expectations. My bets on that they can do it again.
The Sun has gone to these lads heads lol
Umm wow this almost reminds me of the movie Juge Dredd ! If this was to ever happen. Just imagine the narrow width and length of space for law enforcement would be interesting bad and good. It would definitely be a perfect area , place and city for a new movie setting of more of a realistic future like scfi movie scenes . There Definitely is a billion questions for this kind of project.
The last story, published posthumously, by Jamal Kashhoggi was a criticism of Neom.
Imagine navigating home from work
"In 1000 miles turn right"
Neom is such a pie in the sky, not happening, dream-
It's definitely happening. Investors need a place to invest, and the American economy is not looking too good. People don't trust our market after the sanctions, plus it's saturated. China is Commie, Russia is Commie.
Read the Book of Revelation.
It's going to be nuked!
These sorts of hyper-planned cities are always fun to consider. And almost always a complete failure.
They do I think if you want to make a utopic type city you should start slow and grow with need. But they alway are like there will be millions of people living here with in ten years. They never stop to think why would those people live there
West World meets HAL 9000. What could possibly go wrong?
Even IF they start building this, it will be cancelled after a while and become just another slum.
We've seen other countries try this crap, forgetting that 99,999% of their population hasn't got nearly enough money to afford to live there.
There's a better chance of me living on a Mars colony than living in this place.
Hey Simon, I think it would be really cool to see a megaprojects video about stuxnet
Me too, but I think you're on the wrong channel for that.
I came expecting this to be insane. I was not anticipating HOW insane. Woah... 😮
Man, when I need to lighten my spirits, listening to this fairy tale helps.
> Depending on how you prefer to compare sizes..
That's, 1.275 * size of Wales, you forgot the most important unit :)
Or they could create a city from the landscape, carving buildings from the mountains, like they did thousands of years ago that used to house the large populations
naaahhhh, can't abuse or control as many people doing that
"'If it ain't broke, don't fix it?' You're talking out your ass!"
-NEOM, probably
Lol
The majority of the country is sand desert that they don’t know what to do with. The areas that have mountains are already heavily populated because the elevation usually brings cooler climate and more rain
Soooo... Petra? A modern version?
NEOM: Saudi Arabia's reimagining of A Clockwork Orange (IRL).
The future Titanic of the Sands.
More and more everyday I am certain that the future will look like a mix of bladerunner, elysium and district 9.
All the dense cities will turn into Bladerunner-like supercities, and all the more rural and smaller towns will turn into places like we see in district 9 and elysium, run-down and poverty stricken with small bits of scifi thrown in
US will be like that for sure considering suburban sprawl is going to bankrupt areas when the US Ponzi scheme finally collapses
$100 per barrel oil might help this project move forward
The fact the prince thinks this a good idea makes me 100% certain that Saudi Arabia is doomed.
Can't wait to see if it actually happens or becomes another Trainwreck
Haha "train" wreck because it has that one train!
How about a story about the Delaware and Raritan Canal system that ran from the Delaware River to Raritan Bay. The main section of the canal runs from Bordentown on the Delaware to New Brunswick on the Raritan River. It was started in 1830 and finished in 1834. I use to love walking on the tow path that was between the actual canal and Raritan River near New Brunswick, NJ.
What's left of the canal system up by the Delaware water gap is a nice walk. I don't know if it's part of the same system...?
Love to see story about Project Pluto - nuclear powered missile that was essentially an open nuclear reactor flying in the sky.
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“City”, you know like how there was a city in every post apocalypse movie
Let's build a megacity in Antarctica whilst we can't think of any more rediculous places. Why, just why. Ego, that's it.
Remember again what you said in this comment when this city is already built. Do you understand not far from it exist 5 well known big tourists cities. Eilat, Aqaba, Sharm Alshaikh, Taba, Hurghada. Where the best weather, best coral reefs, and amazing mountains and beaches located. You’re gonna feel embarrassed when it succeeds
I actually know someone who was contacted to consult on the line, he took a meeting just to see what they wanted and said he’s 100% sure it’s going to happen but 100% sure it’s gonna be incredibly controversial
They'll probably build some of it, and it'll end up with those Chinese cities that have a few dozen residents.
Sure you know someone, good story bro
@@bonefishgrill6382 what? Never met anyone who knows people before? Never been outside?
Did he also say its probably going to cost x10 times more? Lol
With controversial I hope he means stoopid, insane and utterly impossible. Even if they would find the money to built it as stated it would be a complete failure within weeks if not days and that is if you could actual people wanting to live in it. Not just the mega rich in the top levels but those doing the work at the bottom tiers.
Never mind the utter shit show that would happen outside the line with all the roads outside needed to supply the city as well as get out the trash and waste.
They intend to do ALL this in less than ten years?!
I like the line idea .
If this plan actually goes forward, it will definitely go over budget and be a failure.
So it's supposed to be for the rich? I don't think any rich people are going to live there if they have to walk or use public transit. They typically throw a fit if they don't have a valet service and a car ready to drive them where they want immediately.
LOL
Oil use isn't going anywhere.
On the other hand, a single product economy is one revolutionary idea away from total collapse.
Frankly, I'm not thrilled with the backdrop of this city; Saudi Arabia is not known for making choices that benefit its citizenry. But I must applaud and encourage any idea which both diversifies a nation's portfolio and broaden's a nation's cultural horizons.
I look-forward to the fruition of this project, if it should come to pass.
If nothing else, America and other Western nations (which are beginning to stagnate somewhat) will be potentially jolted into a new awareness of the world around us. Also, other one-product economies may take initiative and hope from such a success.
You're not on reddit anymore pal.
@@GayFrogsTho - what happened?......
did the account get deleted? was he banned? hacked, maybe? were you following him on reddit?
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Gives me big Bioshock vibes
Can we please get a Mega Project video on the F22 Raptor! That would be an awesome video!!
I kind of want to remind folks of something.
Obviously, we can pull a lot of inspiration for our science fact from science fiction.
Not that data protection in a repressive state is a trivial concept, but consider the omnipresent "computer" in a great many science fiction shows.
Sometimes, that computer is activated by a button, but often, it just responds to voice commands.
Obviously, we're looking movie magic right in its face, but consider the difficulties facing Alexa, Siri, etc. today.
One of the most prevalent is context unawareness: the assistant answers each query independently, for the most part, unaware of the previous questions and of the general flow of information in a conversation.
Science fiction computers are not generally insensitive to the pronouns involved in normal speech. Star Trek's computer, for instance, has been shown to be aware of the words spoken nearby it, meaning it isn't waiting for a smarthome-style "wake word" or similar.
Just so, a smart city would always be on, ready to serve, to learn, to process the data given it about everyone.
The fact is that we're giant leaking data sieves. Even the most careful of us are not leakproof.
I grant that the Saudi government may represent an agency unworthy of trust with secret or private personal data, but on the other hand, whose government *would* you trust with that level of access.
People, in short, want the "Commputer" of sci-fi fame, but they don't want to consider the serious privacy ramifications of a device designed to listen in on every conversation, often made aware of every person's location by chips, badges, and/or associated sensor technology. We cannot eat our cake and have it too. We must either give up our illusion of privacy or give up our dreams of artificial servitude in this mode.
I don't know the best choice, but a choice is coming, and the time may be close at hand to make it.
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Id trust Finland or Norway or one of those countries that is run by women lol
“With a staggering pricetag of 500 billion dollars…”, slightly more than half of the U.S.’s yearly military budget.
Thus, it could be done
Considering current Russian aggression, I'd say the US military budget is money well spent.
For the residents whose apartments look out into the space between the two buildings, they will live in "NEOM, City of Darkness". The central area will be a canyon about 300 to 400 feet wide, and 1600 feet deep. The bottom third or so will never see direct sunlight. And I hope the structural engineers have been paying attention. The wind loading on the structure will be phenomenal, since wind cannot go around the structure, like it can with a conventional skyscraper.
They plan to use hyperloop to transport cargo in "The Line" but hyperloop as technology isn't getting usable anytime soon
Does the line give anyone hunger games vibes?
Why you didn’t talk about “تروجينا"? The mountains of neom
This reminds me of "Freedom Ship" and seems as likely to come off.
3 months later and plans for 'The Line' have been shortened to 75 miles and estimated to cost 1 trillion by itself (though will supposedly house 5 million people).
Bioshock in real life
I keep seeing NEOM as an advert on youtube and have been for the past 2-ish weeks. Keep up the good videos guys.
Neom are building nothing other than a virtual presence online, Nadhmi is. joke, you can never build a new future by terrorising your staff
How does plumbing work on this project? Because they tend to build the aesthetics first before thinking about the unglamorous side of construction. IYKYK.
Plans of the princes usually suck
Oh, the shade of doubt being thrown here is tangible ;)
Well done as always :)
Just sounds like a fancy jail to monitor citizens.
Can you do Hornsea wind farm the largest and furthest out to sea than any other and just in your doorstep