The crew dissects an article that appeared in Nature which talked about Japan's Smart Cities. In reality, they are more like small-scale corporate-sponsored towns which have smart infrastructure set up including solar paneled houses and lamps, facial recognition cameras, automated garbage collection, and on the more creepy side, sleep tracking devices. Residents have to opt-in to the more invasive tracking features, but the crew debates whether this data collection is necessary to fullfill these smart cities' goals of dealing with the aging population of Japan. These smart cities are built by Panasonic and some partner organizations unnamed in the article.
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