RIYADH – Some new reports suggest that Saudi Arabia is planning to developa new smart city with extreme technology including artificial moon, flyingcars, robot dinosaurs, glow-in-the-dark sand, and human gene editing amongmany other things.
According to some confidential documents reviewed by *The Wall StreetJournal, *the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, alias MBS, isplanning to develop a futuristic $500 billion mega city, dubbed Neomproject, in order to lessen their dependency on oil.
The city will be called ‘Neom’ – a combination of Greek word neos meaning‘new’, and Arabic word mustaqbal meaning ‘future’. The proposed featuresstated in the reports include flying taxis, a huge artificial moon thatwill be illuminated each evening, and cloud seeding tech to produceartificial clouds and more rainfall in the Saudi desert.
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Moreover, the city will also incorporate schools where classes will betaught by holographic teachers, a Jurassic Park-like island featuringrobotic dinosaurs for entertainment, robotic maids for housework, humangene-editing clinics, glow-in-the-dark sand, and also ultra-modern securitysystem that will make use of drones, security cams, and facial recognitionto track each citizen 24/7.
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“Neom is all about things that are necessarily future-oriented andvisionary,” Neom Chief Executive Nadhmi al Nasr told the* WSJ*. “So we aretalking about technology that is cutting edge and beyond — and in somecases still in development and maybe theoretical.”
*Business Insider *wrote, Neom is among MBS’ Vision 2030 plans to modernizeand diversity the kingdom’s economy, cutting down its dependency on fossilfuels.
