CITE City Meets Westworld

Reality and Fantasy Intertwine.  Which is which?

HBO Westworld is getting substantial pre-release PR.  Obviously.  It has an interesting story line.  It also looks like the interaction of humans and humanoids will be dumbed down to the level of the target audience.  That is unfortunate.  There is an abundance of thought provoking opportunity in a more cerebral development.

What if CITE city is the next movie lot for a blockbuster Human/Android series?

My prior blog entry about CITE City describes a real city to be built with no human occupants.  Built for a billion bucks.  How could it be worth that for the potential return on investment?  Seems strange to me.

Is Westworld the next GoT?

Lord of the Rings fans want to crowd fund a billion dollar city.

Palestinians Construct Billion-Dollar City on a Hill 
Planned to house 40,000 people.  CITE city is planned to house 35,000 people but there will be no people living there.

Panama never built a 3 billion dollar city.

Saudi Arabia goes big with a 100 billion but they have the bucks...until recently.

Game of Thrones has 55 episodes at how much per average?  5 million? 8 million dollars?   

Build a billion dollar city in the desert just to use for a movie lot?  Dual purpose it for actual scientific study? 

Some interesting info at this site:  http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.com/2015/08/new-sim-city-to-be-built-at-cross-new.html
"CITE is a replica of Rock Hill, South Carolina, which proved to be a great testing model due to its mix of old and new building materials."

Rock Hill South Carolina 

From this Atlantic link: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/05/a-giant-fake-city-in-the-middle-of-the-desert/391652/

"As promising as the project is, there’s something a bit spooky about an empty American Sun Belt town, even one intentionally designed to be empty. The scope of the CITE project touches an irrational, but not entirely meaningless, fear that today’s vibrant, bustling, human-run cities might one day be abandoned. People are accustomed to cities changing gradually, if continuously, over time. Major change on the scale of a city can be alarming. In fact, that’s the point of the project—to learn how to more efficiently manipulate a city. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, especially in the case of projects that aim to improve energy efficiency and emergency response. But someone skeptical of government overreach or corporate influence might not be keen on the creation of a platform intended to hone change-making methods. The scope of the project is dazzling. One hopes its vision matches the value of the results."