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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     O'Kane, Josh.     Subjects     Google (Firm)     Internet industry -- Political aspects.     Technology -- Social aspects -- Ontario -- Toronto.     Technology -- Political aspects -- Ontario -- Toronto.     Cities and towns -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Ontario -- Toronto.     Data privacy -- Ontario -- Toronto.     Privacy, Right of -- Ontario -- Toronto.     Waterfronts -- Ontario -- Toronto.     City planning -- Ontario -- Toronto.     Toronto (Ont.) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      O'Kane, Josh.       by title:      Sideways : the city ...       by call number:      307.1216 O41s     Search the Web     O'Kane, Josh.     Google (Firm)     Internet industry -- Political aspects.     Technology -- Social aspects -- Ontario -- Toronto.     Technology -- Political aspects -- Ontario -- Toronto.     Cities and towns -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Ontario -- Toronto.     Data privacy -- Ontario -- Toronto.     Privacy, Right of -- Ontario -- Toronto.     Waterfronts -- Ontario -- Toronto.     City planning -- Ontario -- Toronto.     Toronto (Ont.) -- Biography.       MARC Display

Sideways : the city Google couldn't buy / Josh O'Kane. by O'Kane, Josh. Random House Canada, 2022. Call #: 307.1216 O41s Subjects Google (Firm)   Internet industry -- Political aspects.   Technology -- Social aspects -- Ontario -- Toronto.   Technology -- Political aspects -- Ontario -- Toronto.   Cities and towns -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Ontario -- Toronto.   Data privacy -- Ontario -- Toronto.   Privacy, Right of -- Ontario -- Toronto.   Waterfronts -- Ontario -- Toronto.   City planning -- Ontario -- Toronto.   Toronto (Ont.) -- Biography. ISBN:  9781039000780 (hc.) Alternate title:  City Google couldn't buy Description:  xxi, 392 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "From the reporter who knows the story best, how the fight over a forlorn piece of urban shoreline turned a Canadian city into a battleground of global consequence for the future of democracies and economies. 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 post-industrial lakeshore was available for development. With Google co-founder Larry Page and his trusted chairman, Eric Schmidt, buying into Sidewalk Labs' pitch for the property -- and 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 and Waterfront Toronto, the government-backed organization that owned the land. As hundreds more acres of undeveloped former port lands crept into Sidewalk's plans, alarm bells began ringing over how much the public would actually benefit from the Alphabet-owned company's vision for the high-tech neighbourhood -- and what the company might do with the data it could harvest from the people living there. To Torontonians accustomed to big promises with little follow-through, the ensuing fiasco at first seemed like just another city-building sideshow. But the battle to reel in the ambition of Sidewalk Labs became a crucible moment in the worldwide battle for data rights and against the extension of Big Tech’s digital might into physical world. With extensive contacts on all sides of the debacle, O'Kane tells a story of global importance fought over a small plot of mud and pavement, taking readers from Silicon Valley to New York City to Toronto to Berlin and back again. In the tradition of boardroom dramas like 'Bad Blood' and 'Super Pumped,' 'Sideways' vividly recreates the clashing personalities and David-and-Goliath battle that showed the world that all may not be lost in the effort to contain the rapidly expanding power of Big Tech."--Jacket. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 307.1216 O41s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 307.1216 O41s Adult books Adult Display 1 Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 307.1216 O41s Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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